Stephen Francis “Skip” Nagy, a World War II veteran and former Toledo archery shop co-owner, died Saturday at the Elizabeth Scott Community in Maumee. He was 92.

He suffered cardiopulmonary arrest, relatives said.

He was born in East Toledo and lived his entire life in the city, where he was a fixture on Barker Street.

“He grew up and lived for 90 years on the same street,” his son, Stephen Nagy, Jr., said.

The son of Nicholas and Mary Juhasz Nagy, he was born Feb. 8, 1922. He graduated from Macomber Vocational High School in 1941 and enrolled at the University of Toledo to study mechanical engineering, though he was drafted into the Army in 1942.

Mr. Nagy served with an engineering battalion as a topographical draftsman, helping to make maps and establish airfields in the Pacific Theater. He served in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines, attaining the rank of technician fourth-grade before being honorably discharged in 1946.

During his Army training at Camp Campbell in Kentucky, he met Irene Puls, the sister of an Army friend. The two dated once or twice before Mr. Nagy was shipped out, and they kept in touch through letters.

They wed July 5, 1947, at St. Stephen Catholic Church. They were married 65 years when Mrs. Nagy died in 2012.

The couple built a home on Barker Street across from Mr. Nagy’s childhood home.

“He was always very proud that he was the longest living resident on Barker Street,” Mr. Nagy’s daughter, Jane Thompson, said.

Mr. Nagy worked for Electric Auto-Lite for a time, and he and his four brothers opened the Nagy Brothers Archery Shop on Barker Street in the 1950s using a relocated former Army barracks. The family made bows and arrows, and organized archery competitions.

“People came from all over for their competitions,” the younger Mr. Nagy said. “They had some nationally known archers order their arrows from them.”

The shop closed after a few years.

“The technology was advancing with compound bows,” Mrs. Thompson said. “You were getting more of the sporting stores that the little guy can’t compete with.”

But Mr. Nagy never lost his passion for hunting, and did so exclusively with a bow. He was a member of the Mudjaw Bowman Archery Club, and traveled across both Michigan peninsulas for his hunts with his brothers and other family and friends.

“He worked hard all his life,” his son said. “That was his one or two weeks a year to just get away from it all and get unwound.”

The elder Mr. Nagy was employed by General Mills from 1960 until he retired in 1987. He was a materials handler and also operated a machine that scrubbed floors.

Mr. Nagy took time to help others, his children said. He was active in the St. Vincent de Paul Society where he was a president, as well as the food bank program at the Hungarian Club of Toledo. He was also active in St. Stephen Catholic Church — now Epiphany of the Lord — and the Altar Rosary Society. He was a longtime member of the Fatima Council of the Knights of Columbus, and a charter member of the Mother Theresa Council.

“He was a man of prayer, and he lived what he believed,” Mrs. Thompson said. “He gave of his time, talent, and treasure to anyone that was in need.”

Throughout his life, Mr. Nagy loved people and found joy in making others smile and laugh. His children said he called himself the “poor man’s Bob Hope” and was always telling jokes and funny stories.

“You were a stranger until you met him, and then you became a friend,” Mrs. Thompson said.

Surviving are his son, Stephen; daughter, Jane Thompson; sister, Veronica Maciolek; two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Mr. Nagy donated his body to the University of Toledo Medical Center, the former Medical College of Ohio.

Visitation is 3 to 8 p.m. Jan. 9 in the Oregon Chapel of Eggleston Meinert & Pavley Funeral Home, with recitation of the Rosary at 4 p.m.

A memorial Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Jan. 10 in Epiphany of the Lord, St. Stephen Campus, on Consaul Street. The family will receive callers beginning at 10 a.m.

The family suggests tributes to Epiphany of the Lord, St. Stephen St. Vincent de Paul Society, Helping Hands of St. Louis, or a charity of the donor’s choice.

Contact Alexandra Mester: amester@theblade.com, 419-724-6066, or on Twitter @AlexMesterBlade.

First Published January 2, 2015, 5:00 a.m.