Are you looking for John Day obituaries and death records? While this is very useful in researching a family name, you are actually limited in what you can find when you search only for basic information. John Day obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, John Day, OR newspaper articles originally published Oregon obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these John Day obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.
John Day obituaries include personal information on the character of the deceased and the accomplishments to his/her name. For example, John Day, Oregon obituaries might reveal to you that the subject was born in 1957, and that she had four siblings. John Day, Oregon obituaries further detail where the woman in question grew up, attended schools and worked.