Mr. Carr grew up in Marlborough, graduated from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1947, and continued his education at Tufts University. He was a lieutenant commander in the US Navy during World War II.
Throughout the 1950s and '60s Mr. Carr opened a number of pharmacies; the last was Weston Richardson Drug in 1968.
He leaves his wife, Doris; a son, Robert E. of Concord; a daughter, Nancy A. Robinson of Dracut; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services have been held.
Mr. McCarty was born in Hartford and was raised in Newton. He earned bachelor's and law degrees from Boston College. He served in the US Army from 1942 to 1946 in the Medical Corps and the Judge Advocate General Corps, attaining the rank of first lieutenant.
He began a 38-year career with the federal government in 1947, working for the Department of Agriculture, the Federal Trade Commission, and as an administrative law judge specializing in Social Security disability cases. He retired from the federal government in 1985 and moved to Cape Cod, where he headed the Cape and Islands Better Business Bureau for several years and maintained a private law practice. He moved to East Greenwich, R.I., in 2004.
Mr. McCarty had a passion for sailing.
He leaves his wife, Elinor (Franz), whom he married in 1943; two daughters, Kathleen of Baltimore and Christine Lozano of North Adams; a son John of East Greenwich; a brother, the Rev. Paul McCarty of Weston; two sisters, Patricia Nally of Goshen, N.Y., and Joan Chaisson of Newton; three grandsons; and one granddaughter.
A funeral Mass will be said today at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of Mercy Church in East Greenwich.
