William Peabody Simons II, 91, died at his home at Holbrook Health Center at Piper Shores in Scarborough on July 23, 2010.

He was born June 7, 1919, in Springfield, Mass., to Dorothy F. and Philip W. Simons. 

He attended Longmeadow Country Day School and Groton School, and graduated from Amherst College in 1942.  He joined the U.S. Navy and was trained at Tiverton, R.I., in anti-submarine defense.

He was stationed in both Portland and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he trained Navy frogmen, precursors of the Navy Seals.

While stationed in Portland, he met and married Lorna Boothby on Sept. 4, 1943. He was discharged from the Navy as a lieutenant commander in 1945, and began a career selling life insurance. 

His career changed to banking in 1948, and he spent the next 36 years working at the Third National Bank and Trust of Hamden County in Springfield, Mass., retiring as vice president in 1984.

The couple retired  to  Cape Elizabeth in 1984, where he volunteered as an EMT with  the Cape Elizabeth Rescue Squad.

He was predeceased by his younger brother, Richard L. F. Simons.  He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Lorna Boothby Simons; two children, William P. Simons III of Arlington, Va., and Leslie Simons Fissmer of Bonita Springs, Fla., and Cape Elizabeth; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and five nieces. 

Arrangements were by Hobbs Funeral Home, Scarborough.