Claude L. Nicely, a retired General Motors Corp. security officer, died of multiple organ failure Saturday at the Cromwell Center nursing home in Towson. He was 86.
Mr. Nicely was born in Lundale, W.Va., and raised in Covington, Va. He moved to Baltimore in 1942 when he went to work in security for GM's Broening Highway plant. He retired in 1982.
A longtime Gardenville resident, Mr. Nicely was active in a monthly organization of GM retirees that met regularly for breakfast. He also was a Civil War buff.