OBIT: J. Walter UKKERD, 1899, formerly of Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ J. WALTER UKKERD. J. Walter, eldest son of Holmes M. and May V. Ukkerd, died in Wheeling, Wst Va., February 7, 1899. He was born in Washington, D.C., November 26, 1878, and had been a resident of Altoona seventeen years. He was a student of Wilberforce university in Wilberforce, Ohio, for two years. He was a young man of excellent qualities and beloved by all who knew him. He leaves a mother and father, and one brother, Garnett H. Ukkerd. He died of typhoid fever after an illness of two weeks. Altoona Tribune, Thursday, February 16, 1899