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.
DENVER – Nobody from Team Sweden came home from the Olympics with a medal, after losing to the Americans in the tournament’s quarterfinals. But the extra few days of rest looks to have done them some good.
The Minnesota Wild jumped back into NHL play Thursday with a statement win in Colorado, fueled by two of their Swedish Olympians. The 5-2 victory over the division-leading Avalanche came via a pair of Joel Eriksson Ek goals, and a 44-save night by goalie Filip Gustavsson.
Mats Zuccarello added an insurance goal and Matt Boldy hit the empty net twice late as the Wild pulled ahead of Dallas and within five points of the Avalanche for the lead in the Central Division. Colorado, which hosts the Wild again next week, still has two games in hand on Minnesota.
Out-shot 9-1 early, the Wild’s first bit of work for Colorado goalie Mackenzie Blackwood was notable. Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar stumbled, springing a 2-on-1 break with Boldy feeding a cross-ice pass to Marcus Johansson, whose wrist shot hit the left post, then got a piece of the goalie before a Colorado defender swatted it away from the goalmouth.
Colorado killed a pair of Wild power plays in the first, while Gustavsson turned away every puck he faced, and they went to the first intermission scoreless.
Minnesota grabbed the momentum, and the lead, in the second. Makar went to the penalty box for slashing, and the Wild capitalized on the man-advantage, when Eriksson Ek popped in the rebound of a Boldy shot.
The lead didn’t make it to the end of the period, as a rising shot by Martin Necas found open air over Gustavsson’s shoulder.
With the Wild already on a power play late in the middle frame, Boldy was cross-checked in the face, giving Minnesota 72 seconds of 5-on-3 advantage. Colorado immediately took a third penalty, extending the Wild’s two-man advantage to nearly two full minutes.
Colorado killed two of the three penalties, but was not yet back to full strength when Eriksson Ek banked the puck off the inside of Blackwood’s leg for a 2-1 lead heading into the second break.
Quinn Hughes had a helper on the goal, extending his franchise-best assist streak to 11 games.
The Wild entered the NHL’s three-week Olympic break on a heater, going 8-1-1 in their final 10 games before the pause. They face the Mammoth in Utah on Friday night.