I have a death record for Barbara Grunewald who died in Colfax on November 17, 1992:

Name: Barbara E Grunewald
Date of Death: 17 Nov 1992
Place of Death: Colfax
Age: 94
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1898
Residence: Whitman
Gender: Female
SSN: 532-56-4369
Certificate: 035569

Can anyone provide me with an obituary or some information where she may have been buried?

Thanks

Hi,
You can contact the Washington State Library, www.secstate.wa.gov/library/ask.aspx for a copy of her obit. They will search up to 60 minutes at no charge & email to you what they do or don't find.

She might be buried at the Colfax Cemetery and you'll find the index at Interment.net, www.interment.net/us/wa/whitman.htm . I didn't find her name in their list but contact the person shown on this web site as working on the indexing. She probably can help. Successful Searching!

What I have is not information that you don't already know, just my research...which when posted into the archives might result in someone seeing it. And my suggestions.

Not finding Barbara's grave, I thought maybe she was with her parents as your family tree online shows she never married (or at least not identified in your family tree).

Her father Henry W. Grunewald is buried in Riggs Cemetery, Rosalia. You have his gravestone, but no cemetery identification. Her mother, Emma, remarried to Jacob Olson, had some children, died in Rosalia in 1923. You have a photo of Emma's stone (somewhere in Rosalia).
I don't know if you took the photo's or "hired them out". There is a Bill Paulson in Whitman County on the Random Acts of genealogical kindness that takes photo's. The site http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=77...; has some of the Riggs stones photo's, as you know Wes Hart took the photo of Henry's. If you live in Rosalia, try the local library for newspaper microfilms. Or maybe Wes Hart can do some local research, also try the County Auditor for deeds or other recorded documents.

I found a private family tree containing Barbara's name. I sent a message to the person owning the tree, boggsferrini1, to read this thread. A search identified that person had only posted twice on Rootsweb, last one in 2002. The contact request goes through the Ancestry.com system, the person must log in to see the messages. I don't give this to much possibility.

Basically, since her parents lived and died in Rosalia, she "might" be there also. What do you know about her sister Ruth?

Do you have obits for her half siblings, the Olson's? A living descendant might know where she was buried having attended the funeral.

Barbara's obit is your best shot.

Ron Bestrom
Tacoma, WA

Ruth Grunewald is my grandmother. She married Edwin Francis White in Couer D'Alene Idaho. About 2 years after my mother's birth in 1922, Ruth died of a ruptured appendix in Chahalis, WA and is buried in the Claquato Cemetery.

Barbara Elizabeth Grunewald is buried in the IOOF cemetery of Rosalia, having died 17 Nov 1992.

Ron Gibb
Spokane, WA