Beverly, MA and Rockland, ME

Elizabeth Hunter Walker died peacefully on October 12, 2023. She had been in hospice care for a short time at Beverly Hospital with family around her following a brief series of strokes. Born in Flushing, New York, December 7, 1924, she was the daughter of Gale and Margaret (Meigs) Hunter. She graduated from Chatham Hall School and went on to study at the National Academy of Design in New York City where she excelled as a gifted graphic artist in Gifford Beal's Drawing from the Antique to Life class.

On March 22, 1947, she married Sandor von Podmaniczky of Budapest, Hungary, Munich, Germany and at the time, Boston. During the War Elizabeth had volunteered as nurse on the home front, while Sandor served, and had been honorably discharged from the United States Navy. They started their family in Glen Head, Long Island with their first two sons, Michael Sandor and Gale. They moved to Walpole and then Norfolk, Massachusetts where they welcomed their third son, William Hunter.

In 1956 Sandor and Elizabeth moved to Essex, Connecticut. Sandor changed the family name to that of his stepfather Guy Warren Walker, of Boston, Mass. and Gale became Samuel Gale. They had two more sons, Guy Warren III and John Benjamin. In Essex, the Walkers were very active members of St. John's Episcopal Church.

Elizabeth applied her deep artistic talents to a variety of media: knitting, needlepoint, furniture decoration, quilt making and horticulture. She developed her fine art skills with further study at the Lyme Academy of Arts under Lou Bonemarte to become an accomplished watercolorist. As an artist member of the Essex Art Association, The Lyme Art Association and New Haven Paint and Clay, she exhibited at many venues in southern Connecticut and New York, receiving a number of prizes and awards of distinction. At one time she was represented by Emily Harvey Gallery in NYC and her artwork was widely collected.

In 1986 Sandor and Elizabeth moved to Thomaston, Maine. They maintained their deep involvement in the Episcopal church at St. John Baptist and in the larger community around them while Elizabeth continued to express herself artistically. When Sandor died in 2015 Elizabeth moved to Bartlett Woods retirement community in Rockland, Maine. On September 1, 2023, she moved to The Girdler House in Beverly, Mass. to be closer to family.

Elizabeth was predeceased by her brother Austin Hunter and her sister Joan Altreuter, with whom she shared two years at Bartlett Woods. She is survived by all five sons and their families, as well as her sister-in-law Barbara Hunter of Walpole, NH and her beloved nieces, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.