Robert S. Walker of Los Angeles, Calif., died at home on February 13, 2021, after a period of declining health.

He was born at Bridgton Hospital on August 19, 1948. Robert was the son of Robert E. and Elaine Pitts Walker. During his youth, the family moved quite a few times, including to Springfield Mass., Punxsutawney and Brookville, Penn., Claremont, N.H., North Bridgton, and White Meadow Lake and Montclair, N.J.
He had the great good fortune to spend most boyhood summers in Harrison, with grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and great pals. Robert also thoroughly enjoyed the years he spent in North Bridgton, where he attended Bridgton Academy for a brief period of time. Although he eventually settled in Los Angeles, Maine always felt like home to Robert.

From the beginning, it was clear Robert would never be a boring child. When he was three, a passerby knocked at the door and asked his mother if she knew there was a little boy on the roof. That was a typical day in his childhood. At age 16, he left home to continue his adventures on his own terms. One of his first stops was working at the iconic rock and roll concert venue the Fillmore East in Lower Manhattan. Shortly after came his notable adventures at Woodstock.

During his lifetime, Robert (known to many as “Walker”) wore many hats; including crew member for Janis Joplin and Big Brother & The Holding Company, lighting and sound technician, disc jockey at WBCN radio in Boston, editor and producer of various jazz presentations for the Hollywood Bowl, and substitute bartender at his favorite jazz club in Los Angeles, Cozy’s.

Music was his great passion, and his career path afforded him the opportunity to move in those circles, getting to film, record, document, and to establish friendships with some amazing performers.

Walker met his first wife, Petey, in Cambridge, Mass., where they were part of the founding team of the Orsen Wells Cinema. Walker and Petey were married in the driveway of their Cambridge apartment — the couple barefoot, Petey with flowers in her hair, and a jug band playing in the background. Before their marriage ended, beautiful daughter Heather came into the world.

He later moved to California, and while working for a San Diego radio station, he met his second wife Bree, a radio/TV personality. Their marriage eventually ended, but happily not before a second beautiful daughter, Andrea, was born.

For certain, it can be said of Robert Walker that he lived his life on his own terms. He was a well-mannered troublemaker, with a notoriously dry sense of humor, who valued friendship, equity, and independence.

Robert was predeceased by his parents, and brother, Joseph Pitts Walker.

Surviving are his sisters Betsy Drummond (husband Robert) of Hillsboro, N.H., Bonnie Drummond of Bridgton, his daughter Heather Patterson, (husband Mike), and children Grace and Andrew of Albany, Calif., his daughter Andrea Walker Morris, (husband Allen), and daughter Scout of Prescott, Ariz. Also surviving is his former wife, dear friend Bree Walker Lampley.