Stanley Roy McCord

Captain, U.S. Navy

Stanley Roy McCord was born in 1922 and a native of Yeadon, PA.

McCord graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with the Class of 1945. He received a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, CA, in 1960.

He was a veteran of World War II and also served in a combat theater during the Vietnam War. Most of his military career was spent in submarine units and he commanded three submarines. He retired from the Navy in 1967 as a Captain.

As a civilian, he became Deputy Director of the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office in the Office of Naval Intelligence. His work on top-secret projects was described in the book "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage" by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew. He received the Navy's Distinguished Civilian Service Medal.

He lived in McLean, VA, before retiring to Kilmarnock, VA.

Captain Stanley Roy McCord, 89, died on 10 January 2012, at the Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury retirement facility in Irvington, VA. He suffered from dementia at the time of his death.

He was preceded in death by a son, Rodger McCord, who died in 1976.

Survivors include his wife of 67 years, Helen Boyd McCord of Irvington; three sons, B. Scott McCord of Bethesda, MD, and Lancaster, VA., Geoffrey McCord of Weems, VA, and Brent McCord of Manassas, VA; a sister; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Burial

Captain Stanley Roy McCord is buried at U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, MD.

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