Current & Recent Obituaries & Newspapers:

• Centre Daily Times
  • Centre Daily Times Current Obituaries
  • Penn State's Centre Daily Times Obituaries Index - index before 1920 through 2020, with full page images of most indexed obituaries through 2017.
• Daily Collegian
• Centre County Gazette
• Gant Daily (focuses on Clearfield County and includes Philipsburg area)
• The Express (focuses on Lock Haven, Clinton County but often includes Centre County)
• Funeral Homes Page (most with obituaries)

Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive has the following scanned images online. (Click advanced search at the top, then select the specific newspaper to search it.)

• The Bellefonte National (issues from 1868)
• The Bellefonte Republican (issues from 1869)
• The Central Press (issues from 1862 & 1865)
• Centre Democrat (issues from 1851, 1854, 1860, 1861, 1879-1884)
• Centre Hall Reporter (issues from 1871)
• The Centre Reporter (Centre Hall) (issues from 1871-1879)
• Democratic Watchman (issues from 1855-1871 & 1889-1932)
• Millheim Journal (issues from 1877-1887)
• Penn State's The Free Lance (issues from 1887-1904)
• Penn State's State Collegian (issues from 1904-1911)
• Penn State's Penn State Collegian (issues from 1911-1940)

Chronicling America (Click advanced search at the top, then select the specific newspaper to search it.)

• Centre Democrat (Bellefonte) (issues from 1851, 1854, 1860, 1861, 1879-1884)
• Centre Hall Reporter (issues from 1871)
• The Centre Reporter (Centre Hall) (issues from 1871-1879)
• Millheim Journal (issues from 1877-1887)

Penn State University Libraries:

• Centre Daily Times Obituaries Index
• Historical Digital Collegian Archive includes the Daily Collegian and its predecessors from 1887 to 2010.
• Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers includes four Centre County newspapers:

  		Central Press (issues from 1858-1868)
  		Democratic Watchman (issues from 1855-1871)
  		Bellefonte National (issues from 1868)
  		Bellefonte Republican (issues from 1869)

• The Microforms and Government Information of the Penn State University Libraries also houses the same newspapers as the PA Room in addition to Spring Mills' Centre County Times from the late 1880s, the Bellefonte National from 1868, the Daily Collegian and predecessors, and the Pennsylvania Mirror. Check their website for the years and formats currently available.

The Pennsylvania Room of the Centre County Library & Historical Museum:

• The PA Room has obituary indexes from many Centre County newspapers from 1821 to the present, notebooks filled with clipped obituaries, the Spangler Collection, abstracts and publications.
• There are also hardcopy or microfilm versions of many Centre County newspapers of the newspapers listed below. Check their website for the years and formats currently available.

  		Bellefonte Patriot
  		Bellefonte Republican
                  Central Press
  		Centre Daily Times
  		Centre Democrat
  		Centre Hall Reporter
  		Democratic Watchman
  		Democratic Whig
  		Howard Hustler
  		Keystone Gazette
  		Millheim Journal
  		Philipsburg Journal

Centre County Obituaries can be found online:

• Centre County USGenWeb Archives: Obituaries
• PA-Roots Centre County Board: Obituaries
• Ancestry.com (& former RootsWeb) Centre County Message Board: Centre County Message Board
  • Some of the names include Etta Baralough, Mrs. Benjamin Barr, James Bathurst, Harry Bierly, Barbara Canly, Alverta Cartwright, Sue Cherry, Eva Clemson, Douglass Condo, William Cross, Mary Culligan, Thomas Davis, Warren Davis, David Dennis, Sarah Dennis, John Eckman, Geraldine Estterline, Harold Esterline, Arbor Everett, James Fisher, Ephriam Frantz, Minnie Fravel, James Gray, James Hardy, Pearl Harshberger, Samuel Hoover, Frederick Houser, Littie Houser, Luella Houer, Luther Houser, Anna Hoy, James Hull, Mary Hull, Samuel Hull, Horeace Kauffman, Michael Kelley, Gardner Kuhn, Margaret Long, Maude Martz, Jeanine Matter, Ella Mattern, W S. Mayo, Alta McClincy, Mabel McIlvaine, William Merriman, Emily Miller, Mayme Miller, Sidney Miller, Clarence Muffly, Martha Mulhern, John Neff, Pheobe Page, Clara Price, Helen Reynolds, Nellie Robinson, Lucy Shope, Florence Smith, Nerr Smith, Robert Smith, Lila Staubs, Alice Tressler, Mrs. Josiah Tressler, John Turman, Emanuel Twitmire, Harold Twitmyre, Jacob Walker, William Wasson, Charles Watson, Mary Waugh, Philip Welty, James Williams, Ellen Wise, Madaline Wolford, and Lee Young.
  
  
  
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