Edward J. Shaughnessy, Navy officer, systems engineer

Edward J. Shaughnessy, 95, a retired Navy commander who was later a systems engineer for Planning Research Corp., a consulting firm in McLean, died May 13 at a retirement community in Naples, Fla. He had a heart ailment.

Mr. Shaughnessy joined the Navy in 1941 and served in World War II and the Korean War. His last active-duty assignment was in 1964 at the Navy’s Bureau of Ships in Washington.

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He then joined Planning Research Corp., conducting management and logistics studies for government agencies until he retired in 1994.

Edward Joseph Shaughnessy, a native of Waltham, Mass., was a 1938 graduate of Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y. He received a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1947. He first moved to the Washington region in the early 1960s and lived in Vienna from 1969 until 2010.

He was an adjunct professor of business administration and English at Southeastern University in the District from the early 1960s until 1985.

He was member of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Vienna, where he sang in the choir and held several leadership positions.

His wife of 48 years, Mary Flannery Shaughnessy, died in 1994.

Survivors include eight children, Maureen P. Fuller of Crofton, Edward J. Shaughnessy of Durham, N.C., Coleman P. Shaughnessy of Chantilly, Thomas J. Shaughnessy of Manassas, Deirdre S. Alfred and Reilly M. Shaughnessy, both of San Diego, Mary A. Wickham of Naples and Colleen M. Shaughnessy of Vienna; 27 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

— Lauren Wiseman