Charles Meehan “Chuck” Thomas of Poulsbo died May 22 at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton. He was 75.

Thomas was born June 10, 1933, in New Orleans to Dr. Naugle Thomas and Charlotte Meehan Thomas, but spent his childhood in Arizona.

He graduated from the Army Navy Academy in Carlsbad, Calif., and then attended the University of Arizona before graduating from Tulane University before graduating from Tulane University in 1957. He married Anne Shirley Munch of New Orleans there on June 1 1957.

Thomas’ first employment was with Rohr Aircraft in Riverside, Calif., but in 1960 he joined Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in Sunnyvale, Calif., in support of the Navy’s initial fleet ballistic missile program.

In 1964, he transferred to the Polaris Missile Facility, Bangor. From 1968 to 1972 he was assigned to the Lockheed office at the Navy Strategic Systems Program headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Thomas then returned to Bangor as manager of the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific’s Trident I missile production operations. In 1987 he became the U.S. Navy’s senior representative at the United Kingdom’s Royal Naval Armament Depot in Coulport, Scotland.

He again returned to Bangor in 1989 and retired to his home on the Hood Canal and spent winters in Green Valley, Ariz.

Thomas is survived by his wife, Anne; daughter Julianne Haupt (Mark) and sons Bryan and Alex; son Charles Anslem Thomas (Alma) of Nogales, Ariz.; and daughter Charlote Nelson (Lars) of Spokane and their children: Amy, Emily Mucken (Sam) Laura, John, Peter, Hannah, Katherine, Margaret, Caroline and Samuel; and great-grandchild Lyla Belle Mucken and his sister Nancy Martin of Phoenix.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. May 30 at Vinland Lutheran Church in Poulsbo.