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You need to start at the beginning.
Snohomish, Washington is both a city and a county. From the shape of your query I am estimating you found the exact date and place of death from something like Ancestry's Washington death certificate search engine. If so, she was the one born abt 1856, died aged 85 years...that was in Snohomish the county.
Snohomish County includes a good many large towns and cities, including Everett, Mukilteo, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville, Arlington, Monroe, and, yes, the town of Snohomish proper. Many of these towns and cities did have newspapers, and to respectfully disagree with another poster she could indeed have had a death notice or obituary in a local newspaper irrespective of "fame"--often the smaller the town, the bigger the news when one of the elder folk died. But you've got to know where to look; there is no consolidated index to Washington obituaries.
You need a jurisdiction in which to conduct your search.
Get a certified copy of the death certificate from the Washington State vital records office in Olympia. It will be the best money you ever spent in your search. It will give you the place of burial or cremation or removal, the name of the providing funeral home, the residence and duration of residence at the time of death, and the name and residence of the person providing the information.
Or if you would prefer, the death certificates for this time frame are available on microfilm loan at your local LDS library. Go to www.familysearch.org to get the microfilm number.
Following that, many 1941 Washington newspapers are available on microfilm, and microfilm can be secured on interlibrary loan. The Washington State Library, the University of Washington, and the Everett Public Library are all good sources for the films.
If she is the Sarah A Parkhurst of the right age residing in Newton, Harvey County, Kansas in 1930, she was said to have been born in Wisconsin, and son Oscar at that time might have been the one born in Kansas and living with wife Thelma in Tacoma (which is in Pierce County). The same family group may have been in Kansas as early as 1880, and if so dad's name isn't Daniel (1930 census calls him Aywaon? W Parkhurst, then aged 86, of Pennsylvania, veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, which can be contrasted with the 1880 listing in the same county for W A, Sarah, and son Howard). Don't rule out an obituary or death notice in a distant home town like Newton if the body was removed for burial, as lifelong friends might have been living there instead.
Best of luck in your search.
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