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Check List for Survivors
Check List for Survivors
Clear Creek County Coroner’s Office – 970-409-2720
- Notebook to record any gifts, food, cards, visitors, and people helping, questions, to-do’s.
- Check to see if your loved one left a will, pre-arrangements or other means describing what their
- intentions were after death.
- Notify the funeral service you are using. If it is an out of state death then notify your local funeral
- home to help with arrangements.
- Make arrangements for loved one’s dependents.
- If your loved one had pets, make arrangements for them to be taken care of
- Make arrangements for someone to look after the home of your loved one if they lived alone.
- Notify loved one’s employer.
- Stop any services such as meals on wheels, home health visits or other services.
- Notify family and friends.
- For travel arrangements, make sure you have Funeral home’s telephone number.
- Order certified death certificates.
- Contact Insurance Agency and have them help you fill out all forms*.
- Contact a lawyer to find out if the estate will need to go to probate court*
- Contact Social Security Office *
- If the person was a veteran, contact the local veterans office to find out any benefits available (The state will issue a free Veteran’s Death Certificate for this purpose)* Acquire discharge papers that are needed for the flag application.
- If you will be out of town for the funeral have someone house sit for you and collect all
- Notify any banks and credit card companies. They will require a certified copy of the death certificate
- Notify any creditors where bills were in the deceased’s name only (cell phones, subscriptions)*.
- Make sure bills are being paid.
- Surviving spouse transfer all titles into your name*.
- Change all home utilities into your name if you shared the home with the deceased*.
- Open a checking account only in your name.
- Update your will.
- Update beneficiaries on IRA or 401K or other types of benefit plans.
- Send out thank you cards.
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