Augustus E. Walden Jr.

12/17/2007

Augustus E. Walden Jr., 85, of 55 Cross Road, died Monday at home. Born in North Adams on Oct. 28, 1922, son of Augustus E. Walden Sr. and Rosa Sabjetyski Walden, he attended North Adams schools, including the former St. Joseph's, and graduated from Drury High School in 1942. At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the Navy and served as a radioman with the USS Newport, USS Langley and USS Macon. He received many combat medals. After the war, Mr. Walden received his private pilot's license at the site now occupied by Mount Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown. He was employed by the Boston and Maine Railroad as a freight hustler, telegrapher, tower man, train director and general freight agent in East Deerfield and North Adams, retiring in 1986 with 44 years of service. He was a communicant of St. Francis' Church in North Adams and, later, of St. John Bosco Church in Stamford, Vt., and was a member of the North Adams American Legion and of the Clarksburg VFW. He enjoyed hunting elk, deer and bear, and fishing. He and his wife, the former Mary C. Sullivan, celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary Nov. 27. They were married at St. Francis' Church. Besides his wife, he leaves three daughters, Patricia Morrissey, Joan K. Scott and Susan M. Brandon, all of Clarksburg; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services for Augustus E. "Gus" Walden Jr., who died Monday, Dec. 17, 2007, will be Friday at 10:15 a.m. at FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME FOR FUNERALS, West Chapel, 521 West Main St., North Adams, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. at St. Anthony of Padua Church. Burial will take place in Clarksburg Cemetery in the spring. Calling hours at the funeral home will be Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. Memorial donations are suggested for the St. Francis' Church Building Fund or to St. John Bosco Church, both through the funeral home. He also leaves three sons-in-law, John Morrissey, Clebe Scott and James Brandon; seven grandchildren, Melissa Kivett, James Schoeller Jr., Erin, Christen and Ann Scott, and Patrick and Colin Brandon; and three great-grandchildren, Oliver and Owen Kivett, and James Schoeller III. He was predeceased by five sisters, Elizabeth Wiseman, Julia John, Sister Margaret Augustine, SSP, Mary Raedel and Margaret Parker, and by two brothers, Eli and William Walden.

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