Frederick Bailey Clunie, a high school guidance director, died Tuesday of complications of Parkinson's disease at the Cove's Edge nursing home in Damariscotta, Maine. He was 85 and lived in Sheepscot, Maine.
Mr. Clunie grew up in Newcastle, Maine. He graduated from Lincoln Academy, where his father was headmaster. He married Myra Carter Simmons in 1943.
In 1945, he graduated from Dartmouth College and then joined the US Marine Corps. He served as an officer in Guam and China during World War II. After the war, he took a job as director of guidance in Houlton, Maine, and earned a master's degree in psychology from Columbia University.
In 1952, Mr. Clunie was called back to active duty and served for a year in Korea. In 1961, he retired as a major from the Marine Corps Reserve.
In 1960, the family moved to Danvers. Mr. Clunie served as director of guidance in the Peabody schools from 1960 to 1964 and in Marblehead schools from 1964 until he retired in 1984. He and his wife later moved to Sheepscot, Maine. He served as a trustee of Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Maine.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Clunie leaves two sons, Jeffrey of Medfield and Richard of Newburyport; one daughter, Barbara Kiviniemi of Sheepscot; a sister, Barbara Clifford of Damariscotta; and six grandchildren.
A service was held.
