May 12, 2002
Sunday - 12:15 am

On Saturday afternoon, May 4, 2002, friends and family gathered at the Sunny Point Conference Room to celebrate the life and times of Brian D. Walker.

Brian, age 52, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully in his sleep on April 29, 2002.

As family and friends gathered to share with each other their fond memories of Brian, music from his authentic and classic" LP collection played in the background. Selections from Commander Cody, Jefferson Starship, Traffic, Duane, Greg Allman, Elton John's Yellow Brick Road and Mystery To Me with Fleetwood Mac filled the room. Photos and other memorabilia were displayed from Brian's life.

Brian first came to Alaska in the mid-1970's and lived for several years in Wrangell before moving to Ketchikan. He worked as an AP mechanic at one time or another for most of the local air taxi companies. Brian had held a private pilot's licensee and once owned a Luscombe airplane of his own. For the last five years Brian had been employed by AP&T. Friends remarked that he had said that he was grateful to stop partying and to able to spend more quality time with his family and friends.

If as Helen Keller once said, "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart," then the life of Brain D. Walker's heart was full of beauty. His love of the beauty of Southeast Alaska, especially Moser Bay, was evident in the time he spent at the Moser Bay cabin he built himself. He loved going over to Moser Bay in his skiff and spending time fishing for salmon.

His partner, Cynthia Monrean, described Brian as a man who had a passion for many things in life. She quoted, "The Greeks did not write obituaries. They simply asked, 'Did he have passion?'." Brian had great passion for many things in life.

Brian had a passion for Hawaiian shirts and goofy hats, for Ben and Jerry's ice cream and for authentic, classical LP's from the "60's and 70's. He shared with his father a passion for the Seattle Mariners. Brian had a passion for building and enjoying his cabin at Moser Bay, for airplanes and flying, for Southeast Alaska, and for salmon fishing. But his greatest passion was for his friends and family who will always remember him with the greatest love and affection.

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough." - Seneca

"It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding......" - John, Elton, The Lion King

 

 

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