Charles Edward Brandt Jr., a retired metals executive, died of complications from cancer Dec. 30 at the Charlestown retirement community. The former Mount Vernon resident was 87
Born in Baltimore and raised in Ten Hills, he was a 1945 graduate of McDonogh School, where he played football and lacrosse and wrestled. He was named a 1945 honorable mention for the Ensign C. Markland Kelly Jr. Memorial Cup.
He enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to Bainbridge in Cecil County and later posted to a Key West, Fla., submarine base.
He earned a business degree at Monmouth College and played on the school's varsity tennis team.
He joined the family metal fabricating business, Charles T. Brandt, Inc., which had been founded by his grandfather in 1890. The Ridgely Street plant won war production awards during World War II.
In 1960 the family sold the business to Ellicott Machine. It became Ellicott-Brandt and was later acquired by Koppers of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Brandt then joined Reynolds Metals and International Nickel. He worked on stainless-steel applications for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and a curtain wall for the Mid-Continental Plaza in Chicago. He last worked for Consolidated Aluminum in Chicago.
In the 1980s, he returned to Baltimore and lived in Fells Point, Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon. He became a Baltimore Museum of Industry volunteer, discussing city history with its visitors, family members said.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Charlestown chapel, 715 Maiden Choice Lane in Catonsville.
Survivors include two sons, John Brandt of Springfield, Va., and Bucky Brandt of Underhill, Vt.; and two grandsons. His wife of 49 years, Elizabeth Worthington Brandt, died in 2008.