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
We loved every minute we spent with our family and 2020 reminded us the importance of never taking for granted the moments we have together. We saw how resilient and remarkable our family members can be in order to show us that we are loved. We love you too. We were blessed with friendships, some new and some are the long-time treasured ones. Leo Gress, Richie and Gail Mack, Lila Forseth, Denyse Hygard, Alma McGill, Raymond and Francis Mack, Doris Walliser and Mary Kowalski are the new friends we made in 2020. How scary it was for some of them to leave their homes in the middle of a pandemic and come to live in a home shared with 49 people. They all soon realized that a pandemic is much easier to get through when you can look outside your door and see your neighbour’s smiling face.