Edward Davison Howell, "Ned"[1, 2, 3, 4]  1931 - 2002

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• Suffix	"Ned"
  Birth	3 Aug 1931	Mexico City, Mexico
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Feb 2002	Buffalo, NY
  Person ID	I46	Main
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2005 12:10:00
  Father	John Edward Howell, "Jack", b. 21 Aug 1902, Demorest, Habersham County, Georgia
  Mother	Elizabeth Louise Stone, b. 28 Nov 1905, Chatham, Ontario
  Family ID	F8	Group Sheet
  Family	H.E. Stith
  Children	1. C.D. Howell > 2. E.E. Howell > 3. E.C. Howell > 4. P.J. Howell
  Last Modified	04 Mar 2003 23:28:00
  Family ID	F40	Group Sheet

• Photos		Obit photo enlarged
  		Ned Howell
  		At least one living individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  		Ned Howell in "The Ripple", Buenos Aires, Argentina - photo thanks to Margaret Helen Davison Lathrop.
  		Ned Howell in Puerto Rico
  		Edward Davison Howell age 4 months. Mexico City, Mexico
  Documents		Edward D. Howell - obituary

• Notes

  The following obituary appeared in the Buffalo News, February 8, 2002 - Local section, page A10. A picture was also included. EDWARD D. HOWELL, CORPORATE EXECUTIVE Edward D. "Ned" Howell, an industrial engineer, inventor and corporate executive whose diverse activities took him all over the hemisphere, died Thursday (Feb. 7, 2002) in Roswell Park Cancer Institute after a long illness. He was 71. For 12 years before he retired last year, Howell worked in taxpayer education for the Internal Revenue Service, where he was Buffalo's federal Employee of the Year in 1993. In 1978, he was named Boss of the Year by the American Secretaries' Association and delivered the keynote speech at its annual meeting. Born in Mexico City and educated in Puerto Rico and Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was fluent in Spanish. During his years in Latin America, he also developed a lifelong love of the sea. He graduated from Lawrence-ville School in New Jersey, where he honed his skills as a model boat builder. While studying engineering at Johns Hopkins University, he spent a summer in Fairbanks, Alaska, as a carpenter's helper in a gold mining camp and another in British Columbia as a surveyor on an oil pipeline project. He graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1953 with a degree in industrial engineering. Howell came to Western New York as an engineer at General Electric Co. in Brockport, where he was a volunteer firefighter. His work for GE took him to various locations in the United States and to Bogota, Colombia. In 1965, he joined Carborundum Corp. in Niagara Falls as corporate quality-control director. He later went to Mexico City to head two subsidiaries before returning to the Falls as general manager of Carborundum's Graphite Products Division. He subsequently was promoted to general manager of the Electrominerals Division and corporate vice president. Howell then became Carborundum's corporate energy manager in charge of improving energy efficiency in its worldwide operations. In that capacity, he developed an energy and accounting analysis system that was proposed for nationwide implementation by the Atomic Energy Commission. While at Carborundum, he was president of the American Abrasive Grain Association and a member of the board of Smelterverks in Norway. In 1979, he moved into small business consulting and purchased residential real estate with his wife and other partners. He also bought and ran Paragon Wire and Cable Co. From 1989 to 2001, he was an IRS taxpayer educator and manager of the agency's Hispanic employment program in Buffalo. He received the 1993 Foley Award as the Buffalo area's top federal employee. Howell held two patents and was a registered professional engineer in New York and Kentucky, where he received the Louisville Mayoral Award for coordinating interpreters for a convention of 200 Latin American mayors. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of Plastic Engineers; a member of the boards of Calasanctius School, Hispanics United of Buffalo and Community Action Organization; and a member of the Business Advisory councils of Canisius College and Erie Community College. Howell was an avid swimmer, sailor, gardener and amateur furniture designer. Survivors include his wife of 47 years, the former Helen E. Stith; two daughters, Cecelia Spitta of San Antonio, Texas, and Emerson Nagel of Evanston, Ill.; two sons, Capt. Edward C. of Miami and Peter J. of London, England; two brothers, Peter of Orleans, Mass., and John S. "Spencer" of Savannah, Ga.; and four grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1080 Main St. Thie obituary below appeared in the Buffalo News, February 7, 2002. Beloved husband of Helen (Stith) Howell; father of Cecelia (Adolph) Spitta, Emerson (Robert) Nagel, Captain Edward (Linda) and Peter Howell; grandfather of Zachary and Lillie Howell, Nathaniel and Katherine Nagel; brother of Spencer (Claire) and Peter (Lee) Howell. Friends are invited to attend a Memorial Service on Saturday at 11:00 AM in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Arrangements by VANDERCHER & DICK FUNERAL HOME [5]

• Sources

  [S2] JSH Feb 13 2003 gedcom, John S. Howell, Jr.. [S526] JSH, JSHJr, Buffalo News. [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com). [S468] Darcy McKeough, W. Darcy McKeough, Chart pages included with letter to John S. Howell, Jr. dated 25 Feb, 2003.. [S780] Buffalo News, Obituary, Feb 8, 2002, Local section, page A10..