Harry James Garcia, who owned a security firm and was a former state trooper, died of cancer Nov. 17 at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Towson resident was 73.

A Maryland state trooper from 1951 to 1959, he then founded Crown Security Systems, a security and private detective agency in the 2200 block of St. Paul St. in Charles Village.

Born in Dundalk, he was a 1946 graduate of Sparrows Point High School. He served in the Navy from 1946 to 1949 and was stationed in the Atlantic and the Pacific.

He spent his winters at his Boca Raton, Fla., home, where he kept a large garden of tropical flowers and roses.

A Mass was offered Thursday at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Towson, where he was a parishioner.

He is survived by the former Mireya Castro, his wife of 33 years; three sons, Paul Garcia and Gregory Garcia, both of Dundalk, and Juan C. Garcia of Baltimore; two daughters, Louise Singleton of Ocala, Fla., and Michelle Garcia of Baltimore; eight grandchildren and a great-grandson.