Austin N. Walker

Austin Nickerson Walker, 99, of Hyannis on February 27, 2012. He was born August 12, 1912 to parents Austin A. and Agnes Gardner Walker on a family farm on Mary Dunn Road and graduated Barnstable High School. He married the late Gladys Holway in 1938; they welcomed a daughter in 1940. Austin enlisted in the Navy in 1943, serving with the Seabees in the Aleutian Islands and on Okinawa during the war, in the reserves for five years and on active duty in North Africa during the Korean War; he also sailed with the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. In civilian life, Austin worked for Hood Milk Company, Corcoran Plumbing and Heating Supply Company and in hotel construction and maintenance for over thirty years. He had been the sole surviving charter member of the VFW Post 2578.

Austin and his brother Edwin, deceased, were avid lifelong fishermen and enjoyed clamming and quahogging. Austin loved flying and traveling, but he was a true Cape Codder with an incredible memory for people and places. He found something in common with everyone and always had a joke at the ready. Austin is survived by his daughter Judith Walker Pastorio and son-in-law John A. Chapman, five grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and many, many friends.

Services will be at 10 A.M. on Wednesday, March 7 at Doane, Beal & Ames Funeral Home 160 West Main Street, Hyannis. Burial at Oak Neck Cemetery, Hyannis, will follow.