Harold W. Maher, Engineering executive

A Mass of Christian burial for Harold W. Maher, retired president of an engineering firm in Des Plaines, Ill., will be offered at 11:30 a.m. today at St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church, 6428 York Road.

Mr. Maher, who moved from Barrington, Ill., to Wine Spring Lane in Towson about a year and a half ago, died of pneumonia Monday at the Church Hospital. He was 92.

He retired about 10 years ago as president of the Maher Engineering Co., a consulting firm that also served as equipment manufacturers' representatives.

Earlier, the Chicago native worked there as an electrician and was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. During World War II, he served as an educational consultant to the union in setting up an electronics school, where he also taught, at Marquette University.

He was educated at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

His wife, the former Mary E. O'Donnell, died a year ago.

He is survived by a daughter, Winifred Joan Strueber of Towson; 10 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.