Charles Baldwin Peck III
Born in Cleveland, OH, son of Charles B. Peck Jr. and Elizabeth MacKinnon Peck, Charlie was a WWII veteran. He was a graduate of the University of California Berkeley, BSEE and UCLA, MSEE. He worked at Hughes Aircraft before being recruited by IBM.
Charlie was the manager of IBM’s computer lab at MIT. In 1965, IBM moved Charlie and his family to Europe where he was a Senior Systems Engineer at CERN in Zurich and then in London at British Overseas Airways. They returned to the U.S. in 1969, where he worked in IBM’s Cambridge, MA office before he transferred to the Portland, ME office in 1972. He retired in 1986.
He was married to Lee H. Shenton at the time of his death.
He was a member and past president of Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, volunteered at Falmouth Memorial Library and the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maine. His computer knowledge and assistance was especially appreciated.
Charlie had a brilliant, inquiring mind. He loved math and logic puzzles, was passionate about ham radio and Heathkit projects in his earlier years as well as computers and flying his plane. He enjoyed travel, meeting new people and sharing his interests and knowledge. Charlie was generous, kind and complicated.
He is survived by his wife, Lee Shenton and his former wife, Ruth Bickford Peck; daughters Nancy Peck, Deborah Peck (m. Alan Lishness), Judith Peck and Carol Peck Robins (m. Chris Robins); granddaughters Emma Peck Lishness, Angela Robins, Fiona Robins and grandson Thomas Peck Lishness; brother William K. Peck, sister Elizabeth Mixner; stepdaughter Holly Kidder and her son Alexander Kidder-O’Malley; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church on September 30 at 2 pm. Donations in his memory may be made to Falmouth Memorial Library.
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