Sabrina, you said: << Does anyone have an idea where I could locate information listing the undertakers of the above mentioned areas from about 1880s - 1950s ????..... and who might now have their old records ??? Thanks !! Sabrina Marie Robb Ocala, Florida >> The Neff Funeral Home in Howard, PA has operated from 1853 to the present. With the permission of W. Robert Neff I was able to transcribe some of the older records, in the possession of Harry Glossner, and place a copy in the library in Bellefonte. Jerry McCloskey indexed the same. I have a copy of the transcript here at home and would be glad to look something up for you. The Neff Funeral home covered most of the valley. There were other funeral homes in the Blanchard area. The only one whose records have survived (that I know of) is the Bechdel Funeral Home, which operated out of Beech Creek (just over the line), from about 1900 to 1981. Those records are in the Ross Library in Lock Haven, PA. Let me know the name(s) you are hunting and I will look it up in the records I have. Justin Justin Kirk Houser Genealogist/Researcher of Central PA and Beyond Main Lines: Houser, Breon, Shawley, Ranio (and others) President, BAHS Class of 2003 Listowner, PACENTRE-L@Rootsweb.com Historian, Schürch Association of North America (specialty Central PA lines) Member, Valley View United Methodist Church "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature"