The Rev. Roy A. Ockert

The Rev. Roy A. Ockert, 87, died July 16, 2008. He was ordained in 1967 by the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, CA. He joined in one of the most heated 20th century controversies within our religious movement – the Black Empowerment movement in the late sixties. He was one of three white members of the Black Affairs Council in the first year of its existence. Rev. Ockert also served the Unitarian Society of Orange County in Anaheim, CA and the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fullerton, CA. His wife of 39 years, Virginia Mikulik died in 1989. In 1999 he married Delta Duke McClung of Salem, OR, who survives him. Other survivors include two sons, three daughters, three step-children, 21 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.