Layton Ray Matthews, a retired traffic control manager and World War II submariner, died June 20 at Cape Canaveral Hospital in Florida of renal failure. The former Pasadena resident was 76.

Mr. Matthews, who had lived in Cocoa Beach, Fla., since 1998, retired in 1987 from Hawkins Electric in College Park. He was a manager for 15 years at the company, which designs and installs traffic control systems.

Earlier, he had worked in traffic control for the Baltimore Department of Traffic and Transit.

Born in Asheville, N.C., and raised in Baltimore, Mr. Matthews was a 1944 graduate of City College. He enlisted in the Navy and served as a seaman aboard the submarine Pomodon. He was discharged in 1945.

Plans for services were incomplete yesterday.

Mr. Matthews is survived by his wife of 54 years, the former Nancy Gainor; two sons, Tim Matthews of Cocoa Beach and Terry Matthews of Pasadena; a sister, Olivia Shelley of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and four grandchildren.