ARNO MARTS KING died March 3, 2009,

at Prestige Assisted Living in Green Valley. He was 89 years old.

He and his wife Polly bought their Green Valley house in 1991. For some years they spent winters in Arizona and summers in northern Maine. After Polly died in 1999, and Arno could no longer travel to Maine, he elected to make Green Valley his permanent home.

Arno was an electronics engineer, graduating from Bucknell University in 1943. While there, he was elected to the honor society of engineering and of physics. He went to work immediately for the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D. C. There he headed a group working in the early development of radar systems for the U.S. Navy. His group published several articles in professiona1 journals.

During WWII, the NRL requested his deferment several times because of the importance of his work for the war effort. In 1945, he did join the U.S. Army and was sent to post-war Germany, where he served in the Criminal Investigation Division.

After retirement from the NRL in 1976, Arno fulfilled a lifelong interest in trains. He traveled many railroad lines throughout the United States. While doing this, he was able to visit many cousins from coast to coast. He fell in love with northern Maine.

In 1986, he bought his “camp” near Moosehead Lake. He met and married Polly Noyes, a native of Bangor, Maine, who also loved the Moosehead area. Arno took pride in improving and working on his properties.

While in Maine, he took pleasure in moose sightings and the local history and lore.

In Green Valley, he liked observing the quail, hummingbirds and the mountains.

Arno is survived by his sister Barbara Lee King of Fort Myers, Fla.; first cousin Ernestine King of Topsham, Maine; stepdaughter Judi Lilly and her daughter Jennifer of Trenton, Maine; stepson Geoffrey Noyes of Virginia; as well as many cousins.