OBIT: Elva Pearl (FINK) WALTERS, 1918, native of Bedford County, PA

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WALTERS.

  Mrs. Elva Pearl Walters, wife of James E. Walters of 3929 Fifth 
avenue, died at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning at the family home of a 
complication of diseases.  She was ill for some time.  She was born at 
Yellow Creek, Bedford county, on Sept. 16, 1893, the daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. David Fink and for a number of years taught school at Yellow 
Creek and Bloomfield, Bedford county.  She was married Dec. 1, 1916, in 
Altoona, by Rev. James Riley Bergey, pastor of Trinity Reformed church.  
Surviving are her father, residing in Everett, her husband, who only 
yesterday was able to leave his bed after a week's illness, and the 
following sisters: Mrs. Goldie Cartwright, Miss Edna and Miss Myrtle, 
all of Akron, O.; Mrs. Lillian Gates of Yellow Creek and Mrs. Ray 
Gorsuch of Hopewell.  She was a member of the Reformed church.  The 
remains will be taken to Yellow Creek today and interment made on 
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Holsinger cemetery at Baker's 
Summit.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, October 31, 1918