What is the procedure for canceling the license of an amateur who has died?
Notify the FCC of the amateurs passing by sending the FCC an obituary or copy of a death certificate along with a request to cancel the license. Send it to FCC, 1270 Fairfield Road, Gettysburg, PA 17325. FCC may take 5-10 days to cancel it (sometimes less). To verify that the license was canceled look to the FCC web site at http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/ and do a search for LICENSE, continue, enter the call then hit submit, click on the highlighted call sign then at the top see the call sign status (ACTIVE means it was not yet canceled, CANCELED speaks for itself). Also, send a notice to ARRL for a Silent Key listing, but this alone won’t cause any action at FCC.
