Bernard McTaggart

McTAGGART, Bernard "Ed" Of Old Lyme passed away peacefully in his home on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Born in Boston, Mass. on May 6, 1929, he was the son of Bernard E. and Mary A. (White) McTaggart of Milton, Mass. He graduated from Milton High School and attended Wagner School of Art in Boston. He began his professional career as a sign painter and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1951. He was stationed in Germany, where he married his sweetheart, the former Marlene Hickson of Watertown, Mass., in 1953. While working as an artist after his discharge, he attended Boston University and graduated with honors with a BA in physics in 1959. He began his distinguished career as a scientist at the Raytheon Co. Submarine Signal Division in Portsmouth, RI, and received his MBA in electrical engineering in 1972. He joined Tracor Co. in Rockville, Maryland, in 1970, and in 1980 joined the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC. In 1985 he joined the Naval Undersea Systems Center in New London, Conn., where he became head of the Transducer and Hull Arrays Division, retiring in 1997. Throughout his professional career he loved painting and drawing, and received many prizes for his oil paintings. He was a devoted communicant at Christ the King Parish in Old Lyme, Conn. He will be sorely missed by his wife Marlene, his son Paul McTaggart and wife Susan of Boxford, Mass.; his son Stephen McTaggart and wife Carol of Hope Valley, RI; his daughter Laura Stroebel and husband Kenneth of Salem, Conn.; his grandchildren Karlene McTaggart of Providence, RI; Ryan McTaggart of Salem, Mass. and Meghan McTaggart of Beverly, Mass.; Erin McTaggart of Boxford, Mass.; Greta and Kiefer Stroebel of Salem, Conn.; Jesse McTaggart and wife Amanda and his great-grandson Xhaidien of Cornwall, England.He was predeceased by his brother James of Milton, Mass. He is also survived by two sisters, Louise McGrath of Foxboro, Mass. and Sister Elaine McTaggart of Sisters of Notre Dame, South Boston, Mass.The Funeral Procession will assemble on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 9:00am in Fulton-Theroux Funeral Home, 13 Lake Ave., Niantic, CT and will proceed to a 10:00am Mass of Christian Burial in St. Agnes Church, 22 Haigh Ave., Niantic. Burial with Military Honors will follow in Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme. Please visit www.fulton-theroux.com for tributes and more information.