OBIT: Jerry D. WALK, 1965, formerly of Blair County, PA

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JERRY WALK IS VICTIM THIS MORN

  A former Tyrone man, married and the father of two young daughters, 
was killed and two other young men were injured at 5:05 a.m. today, in 
a one car accident at Fourth st. and Washington ave. 
  The dead man, was Jerry D. Walk, 22, of 513 Pennsylvania ave., Erie.  
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Walk, Box 75, Tyrone RD 3, 
Vail.
  Blair County Coroner, D. Harold Troxell, said Walk died of severe 
head injuries.  
  Injured were Lynn Drake, 21, of 210 Meade St., Northwood, and William 
Mills, 22, of Oak st. Extension, Northwood, a suburb of Tyrone.
  Police said the 1958 Chevrolet hardtop sedan was traveling south on 
Washington ave., and it failed to make the curve between Fourth and 
Fifth sts. The car crossed into the northbound lane and onto the 
sidewalk at 434 Washington ave., struck a tree with its left front, 
then a metal light pole head-on, breaking off the pole and knocking 
over the steel flasher speed warning signal. The vehicle, driven by 
Walk, continued on to enter the driveway of the Plisinskl Sunoco 
Service Station.  There it stopped on its right side, facing north.
  The two injured youths were taken to Tyrone Hospital by the Blazing 
Arrow Hook & Ladder Co. ambulance.  The Rescue Squad of the Citizens 
Fire Co. extricated the body of Walk.  He was pronounced dead at the 
scene, and the removal was supervised by the coroner.  
  Drake is listed in fair condition at the hospital this morning, where 
a hospital spokesman said the family did not want the extent of his 
injuries divulged. 
  Mills was treated for relatively minor injuries in the hospital's 
dispensary and discharged.
  The fatality was the first on borough streets since Feb. 2, 1964.
  Walk, a 1960 graduate of Tyrone Area High School, had been residing 
in Erie since last November, and was employed as a machinist for the 
General Electric Corp.
  At Tyrone Area High, he was an outstanding football and wrestling 
team member. As a football guard, he was named to the second team of 
the All-Central Counties League his senior year, and named the 
outstanding lineman on the team for two consecutive seasons.  In 
wrestling, he had reached the District 6, PIAA semi-final round in 
1960, at 138 lbs.  He had a record of 9 victories, six defeats and a 
draw as a senior member of the wrestling squad.
  He was the son of Gordon R. and Margaret Clewell Walk and was born on 
Nov. 24, 1941.  
  On Dec. 30, 1960, at the Bald Eagle Methodist parsonage, he was 
married to the former Helen Glenn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William B. 
Glenn, of 17th st., Tyrone.  
  The couple have two daughters, Molly Ann and Mary Ellen. 
  Also surviving are the parents, brothers Gene, Port Matilda; Kenneth, 
Tyrone RD, and Blair, of Erie; sisters, Mrs. Elwood (Beatrice) Pechtel, 
of Pen-Argyl; Mrs. Wilda Pierce, Lafayette, N.J., and Miss Ruth Walk, a 
student at God's Bible School, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  He was of the Methodist faith.
  Funeral arrangements, incomplete, are in charge of the Graham & Getz 
Funeral Home. Friends will be received at the funeral home after 7 p.m. 
on Saturday.

Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., May 21, 1965, pages 1 & 2