Name: William Barry Date: July 19th, 1925 - December 12th, 2009 Obituary: William Barry, age 84 of Laurel Road in Brunswick, died peacefully after a long illness on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at the Maine Veteran’s Home in Augusta, where he had been a resident since 2005. He was born July 19, 1925 in Salem, NH, the son of William J. Barry and Mae Bower Marry Miller. In 1943, he began a 25 year career as a Naval Engineer in the U.S. Navy. During that time he received degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carnegie-Mellon University. He served on several destroyers, and at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and the Norfolk Naval Shipyard before being assigned to the U.S. Naval Mission to Chile from 1963 to 1966. He retired with the rank of Commander in 1968. He was a former member of Sigma XI, the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the Association of Metallurgical Engineers. From 1977 to 1986, he worked for Evaluation Research Corporation in the Office of Supervisor of Shipbuilding as liaison Quality Control Engineer for the FFG shipbuilding program at Bath Iron Works. On October 15, 1960, he married Ann Henderson in Charlotte, North Carolina. In Brunswick, he was a member of First Parish Church, UCC, where he served as Deacon. Through the years his interests included travel, skiing, boating, family genealogy, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, working with wood and crossword puzzles. He is predeceased by two sisters, Marianne Barry and Marjorie Lieby. He is survived by his wife of Brunswick; a daughter, Virginia, and her husband, Mark Leonard of Littleton, MA; a son, James H. Barry and his wife Marlene, of Freeport; a brother, Ernest Barry of Lodi, CA; and two stepbrothers, Robert Miller of Newburyport, MA, and James Miller of Gainesville, FL; grandchildren Kyle and Kaitlyn Leonard and Ben and Emma Barry; and a number of nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at 11AM Friday, December 18, 2009 at First Parish Church, Maine Street, Brunswick with Rev. Mary Baard officiating. Burial will be in the First Parish Memorial Garden in the spring. Memorials may be made to the Spirituality in America Fund at First Parish Church, 9 Cleaveland Street, Brunswick, ME 04011, or to the Respite Care Adult Day Services Program, P.O. Box 402, Brunswick, ME 04011. Services: 11:00AM at First Parish Church on Friday, December 18th, 2009 (map/driving directions)