Albert Austin Knight, 82, a former audiologist and owner of the Washington Hearing Aid Center, died of respiratory failure Dec. 7
at Beverly Manor Nursing Home in Annandale. He lived in Sterling.
Mr. Knight worked at the District-based hearing aid center for about 15 years before he bought it in 1975. He retired in 1990. A
native Washingtonian, Mr. Knight attended Western High School and played Boys Club football before enlisting in the Navy
during World War II. He served stateside.
After the war, he married, moved to Northern Virginia and finished his high school degree. He worked as a dental technician
before embarking upon a 30-year career of assisting the hearing-impaired.
Mr. Knight loved sports and, in his youth, collected autographs of several Baseball Hall of Fame players, including Walter
Johnson of the old Washington Senators.
He also enjoyed politics, bowling and golf. Mr. Knight coached in the Vienna Little League and was president of the Vienna
Babe Ruth League.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Betty Engel Knight of Leesburg; five children, Jeffrey E. Knight of Washington, Va., Jerome
C. Knight of Folsom, Calif., Nancy K. Powell of Vienna, Richard L. Knight of Ashburn and Lina K. Edwards of Smithfield, Va.; a
sister; a brother; 19 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan
2008