Patricia Thomas Walker, Formerly of Bridgehampton, Dies October 25

Patricia Thomas Walker, formerly of Bridgehampton, died peacefully at Riverwoods Continuing Care Retirement Community in Exeter, New Hampshire, on October 25. She was 95.

Formerly of Bridgehampton, she grew up during the Great Depression, World War II and the Korean War, and she lived a long and prosperous life. She and her younger sister, Barbara, lived on the corner of Maple Lane, and their father owned a plumbing business in town, Ackerman Thomas. They also had a home on the bay in Noyac.

She attended Bridgehampton School, played clarinet in the band and sang in the chorus. She graduated as the salutatorian, and read her essay, “Is Democracy Understood?”

She gathered eggs at a poultry farm in summers and attended Katherine Gibbs’ School.

When she moved to New York City, she worked as the accessories editor at Holiday Magazine, a travel magazine that employed writers such as Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Lawrence Durell, James Michener, and E.B. White. Her boss was Roger Angell, who had been New Yorker magazine’s first fiction editor and the great baseball writer, who also was the stepson of E.B. White.

She married Theodore G. Walker III at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church on Montauk Highway on February 17, 1951, and the couple moved to Westville, Connecticut, before settling in nearby Woodbridge.

While raising their three children, they often played tennis at the New Haven Lawn Club, bridge, and she was an active member at the New Haven Junior League.

When their children were grown, she finished college and received a master’s in library science and worked as a librarian at the Woodbridge Public Library and the Andrew Mellon Library at Choate Rosemary Hall School.

After living in the New Haven area for over 50 years, with a home in Florida, ski house in Vermont on Okemo Mountain, and two houses on Block Island, she and her husband moved to New London, New Hampshire. They were officially snowbirds who spent the winters on the east coast of Florida.

She was predeceased by her husband of 66 years, Ted. She is survived by three children, Pamela Walker Anthony (Frank) of New Hampshire, Susan Thomas Walker of California, and Theodore George Walker IV of Mexico; three grandchildren, Thomas McKee Monahan (Carrie), Sarah Monahan Nathan (Danny), and Helen Ostby Anthony; four great-grandchildren, Catherine McKee Monahan, Natalie Thomas Monahan, Josie Monahan Nathan and Tyler Walker Nathan; her sister, Barbara Thomas Green of Maryland; and her brother-in-law, Peter Thomas Walker of Connecticut.

A memorial service will be held at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church in the late spring of 2025. There will be a headstone placed next to her parents and grandparents in the Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton.

Memorial donations may be sent to the library of one’s choice.