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 1917 - 2001 (84 years)
William Banning
William Calvin Banning, Electrical Engineer
William Calvin Banning, 84, an electrical engineer who did reliability testing of satellite components for the National Security Agency, died of renal failure June 29 at Washington Adventist Hospital. He lived in Silver Spring.
Mr. Banning also served in the Army Reserve, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1958.
He was a native of New York who attended McKinley Technical High School.
He was a 1939 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and also received a second bachelor's degree, in electrical engineering, from the University of Louisville.
He served in the Signal Corps in North Africa and Europe during World War II and as a cryptographic security officer in Germany after the war. He resigned his commission in 1949 but continued with the National Guard and Army Reserve. He worked for the Naval Security Station starting in 1951 and retired from the NSA in 1979.
Mr. Banning was a Boy Scout master and commissioner, former treasurer of Christ Episcopal Church in Kensington and a member of St. Luke Lutheran Church in Silver Spring and the Lutheran Lay Theology and Fellowship organizations.
He also belonged to the Army-Navy Club, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Phoenix Society, Military Order of World Wars, National Rifle Association, Potomac River Jazz Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion.
His marriage to Katherine Whitaker ended in divorce. His second wife, Mildred Stirratt, died in 1989.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Banning of Silver Spring; two children from his first marriage, Richard C. Banning of Takoma Park and Julia Millar of Juneau, Alaska; two sons from his second marriage, Charles K. Banning of Annandale and Edward S. Banning of Old Lyme, Conn.; and a grandson.
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