West Virginia Obituaries online lists obituary collections and death notices from libraries, newspaper publishers, transcribed collections, and others with published information related to the death of an individual such as:

• • Name of the deceased person

  • Age of deceased person at the time of death

  • Birth date and place

  • Death date and place

  • Names of parents, spouse, and/or relatives

  • Residence of the deceased person

  • Biographical information such as occupation, religion, social activities

  • Name of the newspaper and the date and place of publication

  • Mortuary or undertaker or funeral home

Also see:

West Virginia Birth, Marriage, and Death Records online

West Virginia Substitute Birth, Marriage, and Death Records online

West Virginia Funeral Home Records online

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• AA$ – American Ancestors – fee site
• Anc$ – Ancestry – fee site
• Arc$ – Archives – fee site
• MH$ – MyHeritage – fee site
• N$ – Newspapers.com – fee site
• NA$ – NewspaperArchive.com – fee site
• NAb$ – Newspaper Abstracts.com – fee site
• NB$ – NewsBank – fee site
• OA$ – ObitsArchives.com – fee site (free index)
• AA – Advantage Archives
• AG – AfriGeneas
• BCGS – Boone County Genealogical Society
• BCPL – Brooke County Public Libraries
• CCPL – Cabell County Public Library
• CO – CurrentObituary.com
• GB – GenealogyBuff.com
• GBk – GenealogyBank
• GL – GenLookups.com
• GTHG – Genealogy Trails History Group
• IA – Internet Archive
• WVA&H – West Virginia Archives & History
• WVGW – WVGenWeb
• WVGWA – WVGenWeb Archives
• L – Legacy.com
• OC – ObitCity.com
• OH – Obituaries Help
• PCPL – Putnam County Public Library
• PWCPL – Parkersburg & Wood County Public Library
• RW – RootsWeb
• WC – Wirt County
• WCGHS – Wayne County Genealogical and Historical Society
• WPL – Weir Public Library

West Virginia obituaries online at the federal level

US – Obituaries – HeritageHub collection of obituaries and death notices all 50 states, 1704-present, at NB$

US – Obituaries – Current Obituaries, at CO

US – Obituaries – United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images, at FS

US – Obituaries – United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images, at FS

US – Obituaries – Obituary Daily Times Searchable Index, at RW

US – Obituaries – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images, at FS

US – Obituaries – Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images, at FS

US – Obituaries – Tributes.com, MH$

US – Obituaries – United States Obituary Notices, at FMP$

US – Obituaries – U.S., American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Obituaries, 1899-2012, at Anc$

US – Obituaries – U.S., Selected Jewish Obituaries, 1948-2002, at Anc$

US – Obituaries – U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current, at Anc$

US – Obituaries – U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-current, at Anc$

US – Obituaries – Web: Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2016, at Anc$

US – Obituaries – The United Methodist Church Annual Conference Journal Memoirs Index, at GCAH

US – Current Obituaries – Online Obituaries, at Arc$

State level West Virgnia Obituaries online

West Virginia – Obituaries from the Appalachian Mountains, images only, at FS

West Virginia – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

West Virginia – West Virginia obituaries, 2003-2014, images only, at FS

Ohio – Ohio, Marietta Cemetery Records, 1788-2013, index & links to images, at FS

Virginia – Obituaries – Genealogical Society of Allegany County obituary collection, 1889-1912, images only, at FS

West Virginia – Obituaries – West Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituary Project, at USGWA

West Virginia – Obituaries – African-American Cemeteries and Obituaries, at BC

West Virginia – Obituaries – West Virginia Obituary Search, at OA$

West Virginia – Obituaries – West Virginia Obituaries, at OC

West Virginia – Obituaries – West Virginia Obituary and Death Notice Archive, at GL

West Virginia – Obituaries – West Virginia Obituaries 2000-present, at L

West Virginia – Obituaries – Genealogy Bank Obituaries, at GBk$

West Virginia – Obituaries – West Virginia Obituaries, at GB

West Virginia – Vital Records – WVA&H Death Records, at WVA&H

West Virginia – Current Obituaries – West Virginia Obituaries at Funeral.com

West Virginia – Newspapers – West Virginia Newspapers, at Anc$ 

West Virginia – Newspapers – Newspaper Abstracts West Virginia, at NAb$

West Virginia – Newspapers – NewspaperArchive, at NA$

West Virginia – Newspapers – Historical Newspapers in West Virginia, at N$

County level West Virginia Obituaries online

Barbour County – Obituaries – Barbour County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Barbour County – Obituaries – Barbour County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Barbour County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Berkeley County – Current Obituaries – Brown Funeral Home Obituaries

Berkeley County – Current Obituaries – Herald-Mail Media Obituaries

Berkeley County – Current Obituaries – Rosedale Funeral Home & Cemetery Obituaries

Berkeley County – Obituaries – Berkeley County Obituaries

Berkeley County – Obituaries – Berkeley County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Berkeley County – Obituaries – Civil Rights Digital Library Obituaries, at GVL

Boone County – Obituaries – Boone County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Boone County – Obituaries – Boone County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Boone County – Obituaries – Boone County Area Deaths 2016-2017, at BCGS

Braxton County – Obituaries – Braxton County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Braxton County – Obituaries – Braxton County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Braxton County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Brooke County – Newspapers – The Brooke County Review Newspaper Archive, at BCR

Brooke County – Obituaries – Brooke County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Brooke County – Obituaries – Brooke County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Cabell County – Obituaries – Cabell County Obituaries, at WVGW

Cabell County – Obituaries – Cabell County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Cabell County – Obituaries – Cabell County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Cabell County – Obituaries – Cabell County Obituary Indexes, 1895-2011, at CCPL

Calhoun County – Obituaries – Calhoun County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Calhoun County – Obituaries – Calhoun County Obituaries, at WVGW

Calhoun County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Clay County – Obituaries – Clay County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Clay County – Obituaries – Clay County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Doddridge County – Obituaries – Doddridge County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Doddridge County – Obituaries – Doddridge County Obituaries, at WVGW

Doddridge County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Fayette County – Obituaries – Fayette County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Fayette County – Obituaries – Fayette County Obituaries, at WVGW

Fayette County – Obituaries – The Fayette Tribune and Free Press, preservation project : [abstracts] 1919-1920, Volumes 1-3, at FS

Gilmer County – Obituaries – Gilmer County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Gilmer County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Grant County – Obituaries – Grant County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Grant County – Obituaries – Records from Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Pendleton Times of Franklin, West Virginia; and Grant County Press of Petersburg, West Virginia : clippings of obituaries, marriages and miscellaneous items, at FS

Grant County – Obituaries – Grant County Obituaries, at WVGW

Greenbrier County – Obituaries – Greenbrier County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Greenbrier County – Obituaries – Greenbrier County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Greenbrier County – Obituaries – Greenbrier County Obituaries, at WVGW

Hampshire County – Obituaries – Hampshire County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Hampshire County – Obituaries – Hampshire County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Hancock County – Obituaries – Hancock County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Hancock County – Obituaries – Hancock County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Hardy County – Obituaries – Hardy County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Hardy County – Obituaries – Hardy County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Harrisonburg (Independent City) – Obituaries – Records from Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Pendleton Times of Franklin, West Virginia; and Grant County Press of Petersburg, West Virginia : clippings of obituaries, marriages and miscellaneous items, at FS

Harrison County – Obituaries – Harrison County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Harrison County – Obituaries – Harrison County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Harrison County – Obituaries – Harrison County Obituaries, at WVGW

Harrison County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Jackson County – Obituaries – Jackson County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Jackson County – Obituaries – Jackson County Obituaries, at WVGW

Jefferson County – Obituaries – Jefferson County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Jefferson County – Obituaries – Jefferson County Obituaries, at WVGW

Kanawha County – Obituaries – Kanawha County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Kanawha County – Obituaries – Kanawha County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Kanawha County – Obituaries – Kanawha County Obituaries, at WVGW

Lewis County – Obituaries – Lewis County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Lewis County – Obituaries – Lewis County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Lewis County – Obituaries – Lewis County Obituaries, at WVGW

Lewis County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Lincoln County – Obituaries – Lincoln County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Lincoln County – Obituaries – Lincoln County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Lincoln County – Obituaries – Lincoln County Obituaries, at WVGW

Logan County – Obituaries – Logan County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Logan County – Obituaries – Logan County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Marion County – Obituaries – Marion County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Marion County – Obituaries – Marion County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Marion County – Obituaries – Marion County Obituaries, at WVGW

Marion County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Marshall County – Obituaries – Marshall County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Marshall County – Obituaries – Marshall County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Marshall County – Obituaries – Marshall County Obituaries, at WVGW

Mason County – Obituaries – Mason County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Mason County – Obituaries – Mason County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Mason County – Obituaries – Mason County Obituaries, at WVGW

McDowell County – Obituaries – McDowell County Obituaries, at WVGWA

McDowell County – Obituaries – McDowell County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

McDowell County – Obituaries – McDowell County Obituaries, at WVGW

Mercer County – Obituaries – Mercer County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Mercer County – Obituaries – Mercer County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Mineral County – Obituaries – Mineral County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Mineral County – Obituaries – Mineral County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Mingo County – Obituaries – Mingo County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Mingo County – Obituaries – Mingo County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Monongalia County – Obituaries – Monongalia County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Monongalia County – Obituaries – Monongalia County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Monongalia County – Obituaries – Monongalia County Obituaries, at WVGW

Monroe County – Obituaries – Monroe County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Monroe County – Obituaries – Monroe County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Morgan County – Obituaries – Morgan County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Morgan County – Obituaries – Morgan County Obituaries, at WVGW

Nicholas County – Obituaries – Nicholas County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Nicholas County – Obituaries – Nicholas County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Nicholas County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Ohio County – Newspapers – The Digital Archives of Ohio County Public Library, at AA (obituary search capability)

Ohio County – Obituaries – Ohio County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Ohio County – Obituaries – Ohio County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Ohio County – Obituaries – Ohio County Obituaries, at WVGW

Pendleton County – Obituaries – Pendleton County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Pendleton County – Obituaries – Pendleton County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Pendleton County – Obituaries – Deaths Reported in Early Pendleton County Newspapers 1877-1912, at PCPL

Pendleton County – Obituaries – Deaths Reported in The Falmouth Outlook, at PCPL

Pendleton County – Obituaries – Obituaries from Pendleton County Times, Franklin, W. Va., 1940-1966, at FS

Pendleton County – Obituaries – Records from Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Pendleton Times of Franklin, West Virginia; and Grant County Press of Petersburg, West Virginia : clippings of obituaries, marriages and miscellaneous items, at FS

Pendleton County – Obituaries – Pendleton County Obituaries, at WVGW

Pleasants County – Obituaries – Pleasants County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Pleasants County – Obituaries – Pleasants County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Pleasants County – Obituaries – Pleasants County Obituaries, at WVGW

Pocahontas County – Obituaries – Pocahontas County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Pocahontas County – Obituaries – Pocahontas County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Pocahontas County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Preston County – Obituaries – Preston County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Preston County – Obituaries – Preston County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Preston County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Putnam County – Obituaries – Putnam County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Putnam County – Obituaries – Putnam County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Putnam County – Obituaries – Putnam County Obituaries Search, at PCPL

Raleigh County – Obituaries – Raleigh County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Raleigh County – Obituaries – Raleigh County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Raleigh County – Obituaries – Raleigh County Obituaries, at WVGW

Randolph County – Obituaries – Randolph County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Randolph County – Obituaries – Randolph County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Randolph County – Obituaries – Randolph County Obituaries, at WVGW

Randoph County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Ritchie County – Obituaries – Ritchie County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Ritchie County – Obituaries – Ritchie County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Ritchie County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Roane County – Obituaries – Roane County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Rockingham County – Obituaries – Records from Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Pendleton Times of Franklin, West Virginia; and Grant County Press of Petersburg, West Virginia : clippings of obituaries, marriages and miscellaneous items, at FS

Summers County – Obituaries – Summers County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Summers County – Obituaries – Summers County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Summers County – Obituaries – Hinton daily news obituaries 1902-1906, at FS

Taylor County – Obituaries – Taylor County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Taylor County – Obituaries – Taylor County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Taylor County – Obituaries – Taylor County Obituaries, at WVGW

Taylor County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Tucker County – Obituaries – Tucker County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Tucker County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Tucker County – Obituaries – Tucker County Obituaries, at WVGW

Tyler County – Obituaries – Tyler County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Tyler County – Obituaries – Tyler County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Tyler County – Obituaries – Tyler County Obituaries, at WVGW

Tyler County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Upshur County – Obituaries – Upshur County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Upshur County – Obituaries – Upshur County Obituaries, at WVGW

Upshur County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Wayne County – Obituaries – Wayne County Obits, at WCGHS

Wayne County – Obituaries – Wayne County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Wayne County – Obituaries – Wayne County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Wayne County – Obituaries – Wayne County Obituaries, at WVGW

Webster County – Obituaries – Webster County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Webster County – Obituaries – Webster County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Webster County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Wetzel County – Obituaries – Wetzel County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Wetzel County – Obituaries – Wetzel County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Wetzel County – Obituaries – Wetzel County Obituaries, at WVGW

Wetzel County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Wirt County – Obituaries – Wirt County Obituary Archive, at WC

Wirt County – Obituaries – Wirt County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Wirt County – Obituaries – Obituaries from newspapers of northern West Virginia, images only, at FS

Wood County – Obituaries – Wood County Obituaries, at WVGWA

Wood County – Obituaries – Wood County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

Wood County – Obituaries – Parkersburg & Wood County Genealogy obituary search $2 fee, at PWCPL

Wood County – Obituaries – Parkersburg & Wood County Genealogy Index to Obits in the Parkersburg News 1930-2007, at PWCPL

Wood County – Obituaries – Wood County WV Obits 1901-1902, at PWCPL

Wood County – Obituaries – Wood County Obituaries, at WVGW

Wood County – Obituaries – Index to obituaries in the Parkersburg News [Wood County, West Virginia], 1970-2009, at FS

Wyoming County – Obituaries – Wyoming County Obituaries and Death Notices, at GTHG

City level West Virginia Obituaries online

Fayetteville – Obituaries – The Fayette Tribune and Free Press, preservation project : [abstracts] 1919-1920, Volumes 1-3, at FS

Franklin – Obituaries – Obituaries from Pendleton County Times, Franklin, W. Va., 1940-1966, at FS

Franklin – Obituaries – Records from Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Pendleton Times of Franklin, West Virginia; and Grant County Press of Petersburg, West Virginia : clippings of obituaries, marriages and miscellaneous items, at FS

Harrisonburg (Independent City) – Obituaries – Records from Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Pendleton Times of Franklin, West Virginia; and Grant County Press of Petersburg, West Virginia : clippings of obituaries, marriages and miscellaneous items, at FS

Hinton – Obituaries – Hinton daily news obituaries 1902-1906, at FS

Keyser – Newspapers – The Digital Archives of Princeton Public Library, at AA (obituary search capability)

Martinsburg – Current Obituaries – Brown Funeral Home Obituaries

Martinsburg – Current Obituaries – Rosedale Funeral Home & Cemetery Obituaries

Martinsburg – Current Obituaries – Herald-Mail Media Obituaries

New Martinsville – Obituaries – Obituaries of Wetzel Democrat Newspaper, (New Martinsville, W. Virginia) 1959-1963, at FS

Petersburg – Obituaries – Records from Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Pendleton Times of Franklin, West Virginia; and Grant County Press of Petersburg, West Virginia : clippings of obituaries, marriages and miscellaneous items, at FS

Petersburg – Obituaries – Parkersburg & Wood County Genealogy obituary search $2 fee, at PWCPL

Petersburg – Obituaries – Parkersburg & Wood County Genealogy Index to Obits in the Parkersburg News 1930-2007, at PWCPL

Princeton – Newspapers – The Digital Archives of Princeton Public Library, at AA (obituary search capability)

Weirton – Obituaries – Weirton Daily Times Obituary Index 1931-2014, at WPL

Wellsburg – Deaths – Wellsburg High School Deaths, at BCPL

Wheeling – Newspapers – The Digital Archives of Ohio County Public Library, at AA (obituary search capability)