Howard, Reese E.

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Reese Evans Howard was born on May 28, 1925, in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Margaret Evans, age 28, and Graeme Keith Howard, age 29. He was a graduate of Deerfield Academy and attended Yale and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In Rye his family lived at 270 Locust Avenue.

In 1944 Reese left his studies at Yale and enlisted and served three years as an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.

Reese Howard Wins Wings Flight Officer
Reese E. Howard, son of Col. and Mrs. G. K. Howard, 270 Locust Avenue, received his wings and commission as an aerial navigator on Saturday at Selman Field, Monroe, La.
PAGE SIX THE RYE CHRONICLE Friday, December 29, 1944

Col. Graeme K. Howard, U. S. A. , is home from overseas. His son, Flight Officer Reese E. Howard, U. S. A. Air Corps, is home on leave for a family reunion in their home on Locust Avenue.
September 11. 1946 THE RYE CHRONICLE PAGE NINE

After his honorable discharge in 1946 he resumed his studies at Yale. He married Marie ‘Suzette’ de Marigny Alger on February 18, 1950, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He then married in 1988 in New York City, New York.

Reese Evans Howard ”Old Dad” died on November 16, 2004, in Southport, Connecticut, at the age of 79.

Husband, father of three, grandfather, friend, huntsman, horseman, chef, delighted all with his humor, wit and style.

He will be sorely missed by all but most especially by his wife, Jean Hiscoe Howard, his three children Rug Howard, Suzie Howard Oates and Catherine A. Howard, seven grandchildren, his stepchildren Hillary G. Ponti and Michael Graham, six step-grandchildren and two dogs.

A memorial service was held in New York in the spring of 2005.