Edward L. Grandy Sr., a career Army officer, died of heart failure Sunday at Northwest Hospital Center. The Woodlawn resident was 77.

Born in Norfolk County, Va., he was raised on West West Street in South Baltimore.

He enlisted in the Army immediately after graduating from Frederick Douglass High School in 1942. An infantryman, he served in Germany during World War II. He remained in the Army until 1972 and attained the rank of captain.

In the late 1980s, he was a Maryland veterans commissioner.

"He visited the veterans in hospitals in Maryland," said daughter Darlene Grandy of Woodlawn. "We went as a family and read to them and brought them snacks. If they were sick, we tried to cheer them up."

Captain Grandy was a member of Mount Lebanon Lodge of the Prince Hall Masons.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at John Wesley United Methodist Church, 3202 W. North Ave., where Captain Grandy was a member and usher and sang in the male choir.

He also is survived by his wife of 25 years, the former Gloria V. Cager; two sons, Edward L. Grandy Jr. and John Wheatley, and another daughter, Sheila E. Scott, all of Baltimore; two sisters, Sarah Gordon of Chesapeake, Va., and Leatrice Williams of New Orleans; 12 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grand- daughter.