To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to obits@pioneerpress.com. There is no option to place them through our website at this time. Feel free to contact our obituary desk at 651-228-5263 with any questions.
General Information:
Your full name,
Address (City, State, Zip Code),
Phone number,
And an alternate phone number (if any)
Obituary Specification:
Name of Deceased,
Obituary Text,
A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable, TIF and other files are accepted, we will contact you if there are any issues with the photo.
Ad Run dates
There is a discount for running more than one day, but this must be scheduled on the first run date to apply.
If a photo is used, it must be used for both days for the discount to apply, contact us for more information.
Policies:
Verification of Death:
In order to publish obituaries a name and phone number of funeral home/cremation society is required. We must contact the funeral home/cremation society handling the arrangements during their business hours to verify the death. If the body of the deceased has been donated to the University of Minnesota Anatomy Bequest Program, or a similar program, their phone number is required for verification.
Please allow enough time to contact them especially during their limited weekend hours.
A death certificate is also acceptable for this purpose but only one of these two options are necessary.
Guestbook and Outside Websites:
We are not allowed to reference other media sources with a guestbook or an obituary placed elsewhere when placing an obituary in print and online. We may place a website for a funeral home or a family email for contact instead; contact us with any questions regarding this matter.
Obituary Process:
Once your submission is completed, we will fax or email a proof for review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes price and days the notice is scheduled to appear.
Please review the proof carefully. We must be notified of errors or changes before the notice appears in the Pioneer Press based on each day’s deadlines.
After publication, we will not be responsible for errors that may occur after final proofing.
Online:
Changes to an online obituary can be handled through the obituary desk. Call us with further questions.
Payment Procedure:
Pre-payment is required for all obituary notices prior to publication by the deadline specified below in our deadline schedule. Please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information after you have received the proof and approved its contents.
Credit Card: Payment accepted by phone only due to PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations
EFT: Check by phone. Please provide your routing number and account number.
Rates:
The minimum charge is $162 for the first 12 lines.
Every line after the first 12 is $12.
If the ad is under 12 lines it will be charged the minimum rate of $162.
Obituaries including more than 40 lines will receive a 7.5% discount per line.
On a second run date, receive a 20% discount off both the first and second placement.
Place three obituaries and the third placement will be free of charge.
Each photo published is $125 per day. For example: 2 photos in the paper on 2 days would be 4 photo charges at $500.
Deadlines:
Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the day requested.
Hours
Deadline (no exceptions)
Ad
Photos
MEMORIAM (NON-OBITUARY) REQUEST
Unlike an obituary, Memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. The rates for a memoriam differ from obituaries.
Please call or email us for more memoriam information
Please call 651-228-5280 for more information.
HOURS: Monday – Friday 8:00AM – 5:00PM (CLOSED WEEKENDS and HOLIDAYS)
Please submit your memoriam ad to memoriams@pioneerpress.com or call 651-228-5280.
One thousand games into his NHL career, Marcus Johansson is playing some of his best hockey.
The Wild wing started his 1,000th NHL game with a career-best points streak of eight games and extended it to nine in Minnesota’s 2-0 victory over a struggling Calgary Flames team Sunday night at Grand Casino Arena.
Matt Boldy converted on Johansson’s centering pass from the top of the right circle to break a scoreless tie with 6 minutes, 13 seconds left in the second period for a 1-0 lead, and Kirill Kaprizov scored an empty netter with 50 seconds left as the Wild improved to 4-1-0 in November.
Jesper Wallstedt, making his first start of the season that wasn’t part of a back-to-back, was sharp, stopping several Grade-A chances from a Flames team that was active in the Wild’s end. Calgary outshot the Wild 35-19, but Wallstedt finished with his second NHL shutout.
Early in the second period, Wallstedt laid out to stop a breakaway by Jonathan Huberdeau with his right leg. Later, he swallowed a point-blank one-timer from first-line winger Yegor Sharangovich with his midsection.
Working on a second cycle on the forecheck at the tail end of the second period, Joel Eriksson Ek corralled a puck behind the red line and banked it out to Johansson high between the circle and blue line. Johansson sent a quick pass to Boldy as he skated into the slot.
Boldy took a second to control the puck before snapping it near post, where it snuck past Devin Cooly for a 1-0 lead at 13:47.
The Flames spent the final 45 seconds of the second period in the Wild zone and put several shots on net, all turned back by Wallstedt. After two periods, the Flames were outshooting the Wild 23-16.
Midway through the third period, Yakov Trenin was sent to the box for tripping Matt Coronato. The Flames had a good chance to tie the game when Coronato had the puck in the crease, but Wallstedt stopped the shot, and Faber later cleared a puck from the crease.
The Flames had another man advantage after Kirill Kaprizov was called for tripping. Again, Calgary failed to score, and the Wild shortened the man advantage when Eriksson Ek stole the puck and was tripped by Mackenzie Weegar as he tried to break out of the zone.
On the Wild’s power play, Kaprizov came close to pounding the puck behind Cooley at the right corner but was fought off by a defender.
The Flames pulled Cooley for an extra attacker with 2 minutes remaining. After Wallstedt stopped a shot from the point by Nazem Cadry, Eriksson Ek poked the puck out of the zone, where it was picked up by Kaprizov.
Kaprizov skated in alone for the empty netter at 19:10.