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Edward Harry Carty, 79, died Feb. 18 at his home in Arnold after battling liver cancer.

Mr. Carty was born in Trenton, N.J., on Feb. 9, 1928, and reared in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he was active in Boy Scouts.

While in the Air Force, he served in the Korean War from 1950 to 1954. He attended electronics school at Kessler Air Force Base in Mississippi and then received further training at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory at White Oak, Fort Myer, Va., and Fort Sill, Okla. After his honorable discharge, he attended the University of Wyoming, graduating with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. While attending school, he met and married Betty J. Hibbitts.

In October 1959 he went to work for Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colo., where he designed and tested ground and airborne equipment for Titan missile launch vehicles. He served as system manager the multiple docking adapter on Skylab from Kennedy Space Center.

Other assignments included the Air Force Manned Orbital Laboratory, the Mars Viking Landers and other classified programs. He retired from the Lockheed Martin division in Baltimore in 1989.

Mr. Carty then worked for McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing, at Goddard Space Flight Center, assisting NASA in the integration, test and launch of civilian weather satellites. He retired from Boeing in 1997.

His interests included birding, hunting, fishing, camping, bird dog training and trailing, horseback riding and flying.

His wife died in January 2001. Survivors include one son, Rick B. Carty of Arnold, and one daughter, Elizabeth A. Pitts of Harper's Ferry, W.Va.

Services and burial will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation, 2001 Medical Parkway, Annapolis, MD 21401. Online condolences may be made at www.barrancofuneralhome.com

As published on 2/20/2007 in The Capital Newspaper, Annapolis, MD