How do you unlock an icloud of someone that passed away?

So I recently broke my iPhone 5s due to an unfortunate accident... Since my family could not afford another, a close friend of mine gave me her old iPhone 4. When I scrolled through the settings to see if I could log into my own Apple account, I saw that the email account registered on this phone was her father's email... but her father passed away about 3 years ago..
I tried to log out, but the phone required her father's account's password in order to log out. So I resorted to resetting the phone, but now I can't get access to the phone at all except the opening screen (language setting, wifi, etc).
She asked me the other day if I am successfully using her phone, but I didn't know how to confront her about this. I simply told her it worked fine and didn't show her, but I'm afraid if she's going to catch me avoiding the usage of the phone around her. She lost him when she was only a junior in high school and I knew he was a topic beyond sensitive to her.. It took her a while for her to get back up and move on, and the last thing I want to do is remind her of him.
He passed away from a very sudden death, so it's very unlikely that he left behind any of his accounts' passwords on his will...
Is there any way this phone could be unlocked from this account?
Thanks.

You would need to go to an Apple Store (make an appointment) and take the phone, her father's original invoice when the phone was purchased, and a copy of his death certificate. Only with these will Apple unlock it. If you can't get these, the phone is permanently unusable.

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