Arnold N. “Arnie” McGaha, a retired professional wedding photographer who had also been a telephone company supervisor, died of complications from dementia June 30 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Auburndale, Fla.

The former Frederick resident was 73.

The son of Oda S. McGaha, an insurance salesman, and Annetta Gussio McGaha, a homemaker, Arnold Norman McGaha was born in Frederick and raised in Beltsville.

He graduated from High Point High School in 1961, then served in the Navy from 1961 to 1966.

He then began a 30-year career with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. and worked in Baltimore as a supervisor. At the time of his retirement in 1996, the company had become Bell Atlantic.

Always interested in photography, Mr. McGaha launched a second career as a professional wedding photographer. He retired a second time in 2008.

Mr. McGaha helped coach his son's baseball teams and was a volunteer emergency medical technician with the New Market Volunteer Fire Company during the late 1970s and 1980s.

For more than a decade, he led the singing of hymns and played the piano at assisted-living facilities, including Daybreak Adult Day Services in Frederick.

For the past five years, he had lived in Lake Alfred, Fla. He enjoyed spending time with his family and was a “Mr. Fix-It” who enjoyed making home repairs. He also enjoyed the outdoors.

A celebration of his life will be held at 11 a.m. Aug. 6 at South End Baptist Church, 506 Carrollton Drive, Frederick.

He is survived by his wife of 11 years, Jean Hamill; two sons, Arnold N. McGaha Jr. and John McGaha, both of New Market; two stepdaughters, Gayle Martin of Sparks and Tammy Fisher of Dunedin, Fla.; a brother, Oda S. McGaha Jr. of Palmetto, Fla.; a sister, Nancy V. McGaha of Lake Alfred; and five grandchildren. An earlier marriage to Connie Burt ended in divorce.

— Frederick N. Rasmussen