Angie Craig

To share the story of your loved one, you can submit an obituary using any of the following methods:

Email: Please include the information from our Obituary Checklist (referenced below) to [email protected].

Online: Use our Self-Service Portal for a step-by-step guided process.

Need assistance? Our obituary desk is here to help. Please call us at 651-228-5263 with any questions regarding the process or deadlines.

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)

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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 [email protected] or call 651-228-5280.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan received the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s endorsement Saturday at the state convention.

With no challengers present, delegates gathered at Rochester’s Mayo Civic Center approved Flanagan’s endorsement by acclamation rather than ballots. Now that Flanagan has the endorsement, the DFL will directly support her campaign as she heads to the August primary.

She’ll face Democratic Congresswoman Angie Craig, who on Wednesday announced she would skip the endorsement process. They seek to fill the seat of Democratic U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, who is leaving office at the end of the year and has endorsed Flanagan.

In a speech ahead of her endorsement, Flanagan subtly took aim at her more moderate opponent and called for DFLers to be bold and unapologetic about their progressive agenda.

“We got here in part because too many Democrats have been weak,” she said. “We can’t just be the lesser of two evils and we will never win by being a pale shadow of our opponents.”

If elected to the Senate, Flanagan said she’d push to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, lower the cost of prescription drugs, create universal state-funded health care and shut down Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Unlike U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who faced a challenge from the left during the Friday night endorsement process, no other candidate stepped forward to seek the senate endorsement.

Craig, a fourth-term congresswoman who has succeeded in the competitive 2nd Congressional District by appealing to moderate voters, has outraised Flanagan and had a strong start in the Senate race in 2025.

But party activists, progressives and many other top DFL figures have coalesced around Flanagan, whose campaign has gained momentum in the wake of the Trump administration’s winter immigration crackdown. Flanagan has targeted Craig for her support in 2025 of the Laken Riley Act, which expanded federal immigration enforcement powers.

Unlike the GOP endorsement, the DFL endorsement isn’t the same virtual guarantee of a primary win. In 2018, for instance, Gov. Tim Walz went on to the primary after narrowly losing the endorsement contest to then Rep. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul, who is now the state Senate majority leader.

Flanagan’s campaign argues this year will be different because Craig has skipped the convention altogether. Craig said Wednesday she didn’t believe the convention system represents the priorities of average Minnesota voters.

Republicans also endorsed a Senate candidate over the weekend at their convention in Duluth. Adam Schwarze received the party nod in a three-way contest with NFL sideline commentator Michelle Tafoya and former NBA basketball player Royce White.

It’s still not certain who will be on the ballot in the Nov. 3 general election.

Tafoya said she plans to advance to the Aug. 11 primary without party backing. On Friday, White, who won the GOP senate endorsement two years ago, said he had “abided by the endorsement since 2024,” Forum News Service reported.