Area Deaths
Scroll down below the table to see how to request obituaries.
Libraries with Obituaries
The Obituary Index is extensive but not comprehensive for all years. Each record has a Location field. The information in that field varies. It can be where the person lived, where he/she died, where he/she is buried or the location of the mortuary. Click on the sheet of paper icon in the table above for the details of the record. The Source field contains the name of the repository that holds the microfilms for the original records. To get the obituary, you would contact that library. The VCGS database is drawn from the papers listed below. Click on the blue link to go to the library site that has those obituaries or use the contact information at the bottom of this page.
| SOURCE | FROM | TO | COMMENTS |
| Camarillo News/Daily News (Camarillo Library) | 1908 | 1993 | 1874, 1881, 1900 (microfilm 1926-1993) |
| Camarillo Star Free Press (Camarillo Library) | 2016 | ||
| Fillmore American (Fillmore Library) | 1925 | 1932 | 1918 & scattered years 1933-1995 |
| Fillmore Daily Sun (Fillmore Library) | 1917 | 1919 | |
| Fillmore Gazette (Fillmore Library) | 1989 | 1996 | and 1962 |
| Fillmore Herald-1916-1996 (Fillmore Library) | 1916 | 1996 | 1904, 1907 |
| Los Angeles Daily News | 1974 | ||
| Los Angeles Times (Thousand Oaks Library) | 1983 | 2011 | |
| News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks Library) | 1974 | 1983 | |
| Ojai News (Ojai Library) | 1891 | 1892 | |
| Oxnard Courier-1899-1915 (Ventura Co. Hist. Soc. Library) | 1904 | 1915 | scattered years from 1899 |
| Oxnard Press Courier (Oxnard Library) | 1903 | 1903 | |
| Signal Weekly 1871-80, 1884 (Foster Library) | 1871 | 1880 | and 1884 |
| Thousand Oaks Acorn (Thousand Oaks Library) | scattered 2000s | ||
| Thousand Oaks News Chronicle (Thousand Oaks Library) | 2004 | ||
| Thousand Oaks Star (Thousand Oaks Library) | 2003 | 2008 | and 1983 |
| Thousand Oaks Star Free Press (Thousand Oaks Library) | 1983 | ||
| Ventura County Star (Foster Library) | 1925 | 2016 | |
| Ventura County Star (Camarillo Library) | 1996 | 2/2011 | and current year |
| Ventura County Star before 1997 (Museum of Ventura County Research Library) | 1952, 1974, 1983, 1994 | ||
| Ventura Daily Democrat-7/1901-9/1925 (Foster Library) | 1904 | 1915 | scattered years thereafter |
| Ventura Daily Post and Democrat (Foster Library) | 1915 | 1927 | |
| Ventura Free Press (Foster Library) | 1925 | 1931 | scattered years 1893-1900 and later |
| Ventura Weekly Democrat (Ventura Co. Hist. Soc. Library) | 1896 | 1901 | |
| Ventura Weekly Post & Democrat (Foster Library) | 1922 | 1926 |
We would like to thank our indexers for their hard work in assembling this index. In particular Anita Schmidt and Marcie Malony, as well as to Jay C. Wood for thousands of Fillmore obituaries. Mr. Wood provides additional guidance for the use of Fillmore obituaries here.
Additional Ventura County obituaries can be found on FamilySearch.org here:
Obituaries from the Ventura County (Calif.) Star Free Press, 1971- 1984 : and obituaries and genealogical inquiry clippings from various unidentified newspapers from Utah
OBTAINING AN OBITUARY
For Ventura County Star obituaries archived since 2006, search at this link. Complete obituaries are available for purchase at that site.
To obtain copies of obituaries listed in the above table, contact the appropriate library as show below (information as of July, 2022):
Camarillo Library: email VCGS webmaster for lookup (or askus@camarillolibrary.org or 805-388-5222)
Fillmore Library: (library currently closed for renovation)
Foster Library (Ventura): (805) 648-2716 (not able to do lookups at this time, must visit in person)
Oxnard Public Library: local.history@oxnard.org, 805-385-7532, website (limited staff availability for lookups. Must provide exact date of obituary.)
Thousand Oaks Library (Grant Brimhall branch): (eliminating all microfilm. Lookups not available.)
