Drake Community Library has a free Poweshiek County Obituary Database as well as digitized Drake Historical Newspapers online.

Obituaries – Poweshiek County Obituary Database, 1800s- present 

• Sources and their abbreviation in the database
• BC: Brooklyn Chronicle
• CH: The Chronicle (a precursor to Poweshiek County Chronicle Republican for a short time in 2009)
• DT: Diamond Trail
• HR: Grinnell Herald Register
• MR: Montezuma Republican
• PCCR: Poweshiek County Chronicle Republican (Brooklyn and Montezuma combined papers in 2009)
• Record: Poweshiek County, Montezuma, Deep River and Montezuma School District

Newspapers – Drake Historic Newspaper Database

• The Grinnell Herald
  (1871-1925)  
• The Grinnell Register
  (1911-1925) 
• The Signal
  (1882-1886)   
• Poweshiek County Herald
  (1870-1871)   
• The Malcom Bulletin
  (1871-1871)  
• The Montezuma Standard
  (1871-1872)