Roger Conarty

Roger Leon Conarty, Colonel US Army, retired, son of Mr. And Mrs. Lewers Rogers Conarty, Carlsbad N.M. died of pulmonary complications after hip surgery at the Wyoming Medical Center, Casper. Wyoming on August 24, 2011. He was 90 years old, WW2 veteran, and married to Anna May Conarty, 55 years August 2, 2011, and a Wyoming resident, for the past 10 years. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in June 1943, with a bachelor degree in engineering, Princeton University with a masters in Physics 1951, and a double masters in nuclear engineering, and business administration University of New Mexico, 1975. Roger had a long and productive 35 year career as a soldier, leader, and scholar. Anna May and Roger have four children: Helene Madeleine Crouch, Micaela Ann Perkins, Murray Roger Conarty, and David Alain Conarty, who predeceased his father. Roger also has a daughter by a previous marriage, Sharon Lee Nesseth, spouse Darrell: and her children: Margo deceased, Lt. Colonel Emily Schiffer, Christopher Nesseth Helene's children are: Megan Greer Crouch, Trey Douglass Crouch, and Russell K. Crouch, and her spouse Roger Warren Griffin of Casper, Wyoming, and Skagway, Alaska. Micaela's children are: Brennen Perkins, Spencer Perkins, and her spouse Paul Perkins of Parker Colorado. Murray's has one daughter: Cassandra Irene Conarty, and two step daughters Jennifer, and Laura, spouse Sandra Jean Conarty, all of Dallas, Texas. David Alain had no children prior to his demise, and is interred with his baby sister Elizabeth Ivers at the Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Roger Conarty will be interred with their children, at the same site. Roger, had been a game hunter, fly fisherman, collector of varieties of music, having played trombone in a dance orchestra, plus he was actively involved with the National Ski Patrol, in Alaska and New Mexico, along with his immersion in computer programming, and desk top publishing. All of the family had many years of traveling the world in their different military assignments, and had continued this trend in their retirement. All of the family says Farewell to a gentleman, hero, and a scholar of many fields of interest. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church by Fr. Robert Fox at 9:00 AM. Saturday, August 27, 2011. Inurnment will take place at Arlington National Cemetery in December, 2011.