OBIT: Elwood Edwin WALK, 2005, Tyrone, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Miller Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ ELWOOD EDWIN WALK Elwood Edwin Walk, 80, of RD 3, Box 211, Tyrone, died at 4:45 p.m., Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at the Altoona Regional Health System, Altoona Hospital Campus. He was born Sept. 4, 1924 at Hannah, Centre County. a son of Howard L. and Ida Mary (McMonigal) Walk, Sr. He never married. He is survived by brothers and sisters: Irene Cree, Warren L. Walk, Sr., Austin E. Walk, Sr., Bettye M. Walk, all of RD, Tyrone; Arthur B. Walk of Tyrone and a half-brother, Walter Fink of Patton. There are several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a sister Helen Dillon, a brother Howard Walk, Jr., a half-brother Orlando Fink and a half-sister Thelma McClellan. He was a member of the Hannah Methodist Church. His lifelong passion was hunting, fishing, woodcarving and gardening. He was retired from the Pennsylvania Railroad as a trackman. Funeral services will be held Friday, April 8, 2005 at 11 a.m. at the Derman Funeral Home, Inc., Tyrone, with Rev. Ben T. Grove officiating. Interment will follow at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, RD, Port Matilda. Friends will be received at the funeral home on Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Contributions in his memory may be offered to the Hannah Methodist Church c/o Fay Price, Treasurer, Goss Hollow Lane, Box 171, Port Matilda, PA, 16870. Tyrone Daily Herald, April 7, 2005