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His Life

Ted's Life

September 26, 2014

Ted was born in Lynn, MA and attended Lynn High School. He entered the United States Coast Guard in 1947 as a Radar Man. He was stationed on Nantucket Island where he met his wife Beatrice Lamens Ceely.  He tended the Sankaty Light and worked at the Loran Station on the island.  After leaving Nantucket and moving to Reading, Ted worked for 22 years for AVCO Everett Research Laboratories where he was part of the Terminal Radiation Program that tracked the trajectory and the re-entry of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles under Dr. Rochelle Prescott.  Ted was a member of the team of idividuals responsible for the first recovery of an ICBM. 

After retiring from AVCO, Ted and Bea returned to Nantucket Island where they remodeled a summer cottage and built a home on land handed down through the Ceely and Starbuck families for generations. At this time Ted also built a commercial scalloping boat and began scalloping during the winter season. During the summer season Ted and Bea volunteered time for the Boys and Girls Club of Nantucket and the Anglers Club annual clam bakes becoming known as 'Mr. and Mrs. Corn' for preparing hundreds of ears of corn each year.

Ted enjoyed gardening, bird watching, astronomy and boating. He was an accomplished cabinet maker and carpenter and thoroughly enjoyed repairing anything he could get his hands on. On the island, he was the 'go-to' person for his many friends and acquaintances when a techical question needed an answer or something needed repair.