MY EDMONDS NEWS
Posted: May 7, 2021
1938-2021
On Friday, April 30, 2021, Lawrence (Larry) Robert Austin, loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed away at the age of 82. Larry was born in Seattle at Providence hospital. He used to tell his wife, Mary Ann, that he was a “gift from Providence.” He graduated from Queen Anne High and briefly attended the University of Washington. After a year of college, he joined the National Guard and began working at Boeing. He eventually ended up going to Edison Technical School (which later became Seattle Community College) to learn to be a mechanic. He was working as a mechanic at Claeghorn Shell when he met Mary Ann Felber at a party on Lake Washington and was smitten. Larry and Mary Ann raised two daughters in Edmonds, WA. For many years, Larry had his own car repair shop in the garage of the Norton Building. He worked for several more repair shops over the years and even briefly had a talk radio show about cars on KIRO Radio in the ’90s.