Ed Walker

Ed Walker, the second-to-last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats, in 2008.

Edgar Walker (August 28, 1917 – October 28, 2011) was an American veteran of World War II, businessman, publisher and writer. Walker was the penultimate surviving member of "Castner's Cutthroats", a regiment consisting of sixty-five men who performed reconnaissance missions in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Castner's Cutthroats was the unofficial name of the 1st Alaskan Combat Intelligence Platoon.

Early life Walker was born on August 28, 1917, in San Juan Bautista, California.

Personal life Walker met his future wife, Frances Park, while she was employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who were constructing the Alaska Highway at the time. The couple married at a ceremony in Fort Richardson on April 29, 1944. They had four children: Bob, Suzy, Kathleen and Bill, who was elected Governor of Alaska in 2014. The family moved to Fairbanks after World War II. Frances Walker worked as a writer for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. They moved to Valdez, Alaska, in 1960.

Walker resided at the Alaska Veterans and Pioneers Home in Palmer, Alaska, for most of the last quarter century of his life. A widower, he died at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska, on October 28, 2011, aged 94.