Arthur Lee Walker III

Dr. Arthur L. Walker of Honolulu, Hawaii passed away peacefully on May 5, 2020 with his loving family by his side after a year of declining health.

Dr. Walker was born September 8, 1941 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and attended John Carroll Elementary School. He went on to graduate from Bishop McGuinness High School in 1959 where he was a decorated student athlete in football, baseball and basketball.

He entered Conception Abbey Seminary in Missouri upon graduation from high school and later studied at the Canisianum in Innsbruck, Austria. Dedicated to peace, he took a principled stance against the Vietnam War, becoming a conscientious objector, and served alternatively in a state mental hospital in western Pennsylvania.

After leaving his seminary studies, he attended Duquesne University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he received his Masters in Psychology. He was a professor of Psychology at St. Vincent College in La Trobe, Pennsylvania and later completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming.

He chose to make Hawaii his home after finishing his PhD and lovingly embraced the state and its culture. Affectionately known as Bim to his family and friends, he was a world traveler, life long student and lover of art and beauty. For family celebrations on the mainland, he would always send his love through beautiful leis, which was very special.

Bim was a collector of books and had an un-quenching appetite for learning and exploring. His other interests included Aikido and Tai Chi. Well respected by his peers and the patients of his practice, Dr. Walker will be dearly missed by his family, friends and all the patients whose lives he touched. He was a proud and loving father to his precious daughter Christina and a devoted husband to his beautiful wife Sunye.

Born the oldest of seven children, he was preceded in death by his parents Mr. Art L. Walker and Mrs. Sylvia G. Walker as well as brother Timothy Walker and nephew Cory Walker. He is survived by his wife Sunye and their daughter Christina. He is also survived by his brother Jim Walker, Redondo Beach, CA; sister Cynthia Claro, Oklahoma City, OK; brother Christopher Walker, San Francisco, CA and wife Connie; sister Mary Genevieve Crozier, Austin, TX and husband Mark; sister Kim Kolda, Cape Girardeau, MO and husband Mike as well as sixteen nieces and nephews and thirteen great nieces and nephews.

Private burial and funeral Mass will be at Hawaiian Memorial Park in Kaneohe, Hawaii on May 19, 2020.