George W. Crockatt Jr. of West Bloomfield Township, former Wayne State systems analyst and a founder of Professional and Administrative Union Local 1979, died Oct. 27 of cancer. He was 75.

Mr. Crockatt was born April 4, 1923 in Kalamazoo. He served as a lead systems analyst in the administrative systems development department of the Computing Services Center from 1983 to 1985. He then transferred to the Management and Information Center in the Division of Administration and Finance before retiring in 1987.

In 1970, Mr. Crockatt was instrumental in establishing the Professional and Administrative Union local at the university and in affiliating it with the UAW in the late 1970s. He served as the local's first vice president and second president.

Mr. Crockatt graduated from Grosse Pointe High School in 1941 and entered the U.S. Air Force in 1942. Upon leaving the Air Force in 1947, he enrolled at Wayne University, majoring in personnel in the College of Business Administration, from which he received a bachelor of science degree in 1950.

While attending Wayne University, Mr. Crockatt worked as a student assistant in general services from 1948 to 1951, when he re-enlisted in the Air Force and served until 1953.

Mr. Crockatt came back to Wayne University in 1956 as a technical administrative assistant in admissions, records and registration. He became an administrative assistant in that unit in 1959 before moving to other administrative assistant positions in the Computing and Data Processing Center of the Graduate Division and its later incarnation, the administrative data systems unit of the Computing and Data Processing Division.

In 1969 Mr. Crockatt became a senior systems analyst; he was named a lead systems analyst in 1980.

He is survived by his wife, Milli Fox, four children and six grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to an individually chosen charity.