- Date Of Birth: April 10, 1926
- Date Of Death: February 10, 2012
- State: Pennsylvania
Captain Wellard R. Guffy (Ret.), 85, of 1620 Elmira Street, died Friday, February 10, 2012, at the Williamsport Regional Medical Center.
Capt. Guffy graduated from Williamsport High School and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944 and served on a heavy cruiser in the Pacific during World War II. He then attended Lycoming College from 1946 to 1950 and received a B.S. in Business Administration.
At the outbreak of the Korean War, he was recalled to active duty and in 1952 was commissioned as Ensign. After completing Officer Candidate School, he served as Director of War Planning at the Naval Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg, from 1952 to 1954 and participated in nuclear weapons tests in Nevada. He next served as Supply Officer on the USS Casa Grande, a landing ship dock which operated from the Arctic to the Caribbean. In 1957, he was assigned to the Radiological Defense Laboratory in San Francisco as head of the Logistics Division and in 1960, he was assigned duty as Assistant Force Supply Officer of the Submarine Force Pacific Fleet Staff. His responsibilities included inspecting Pacific Fleet Submarines as well as insuring their financial and logistic support. After this three year tour in Hawaii, he was sent to Las Vegas, Nevada as the Supply and Fiscal Officer at Lake Mead Base, which was a national stockpile site for nuclear weapons. In 1965, he was assigned as Supply Officer of the USS Prairie, a destroyer tender which operated in the Pacific. From 1967 to 1970, he was assigned as Deputy Director of Supply at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory where he served for seven years as the Supply Officer and Procuring Officer for several major weapons systems.
Capt. Guffy was a member of John F. Laedlein Lodge #707 F. & A. M. and the Legion of Honor at Boumi Temple in Baltimore, Md.
Born in Williamsport, he was the son of Wellard T. and Lillian M. Swartz Guffy.
Surviving are his sisters, Ethel Lucas of Montoursville and Pearl Colyer of Williamsport.
In keeping with the wishes of Capt.
