Howard, Warren Weston, 1889-1970
Biographical Note
Warren Weston Howard was born to William and Rosa Weston Howard on June 18, 1889, in Hampton, Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1912. Howard served in the United States Army during World War I. He graduated as Captain from the United States Army Infantry School from a National Guard program in 1926 and was appointed to First Lieutenant in the Florida National Guard in 1927. According to the 1950 census, he lived in Houston, Textas, where he was an inspector for a manufacturer of oil field tools. He was an instructor of mathematics at VPI from 1955 to 1960.
Warren Howard first married Daisy Skipper on December 3, 1921, in Washington, D.C., and they divorced in 1929 while living in Dade County, Florida. He next married Mary Louise Monfort (1896-1938) on April 24, 1931, at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Finally, Howard married Vada Juanita Winfrey (1905-1980) in the 1940s, and they moved to Houston, Texas, by 1950.
Howard died on July 21, 1970, in Radford, Virginia, and is buried alongside Vada Howard in Westview Cemetery, Blacksburg, Virginia.
External sources:
U. S. Federal Census, 1910-1950
"Warren Weston Howard", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74334957/warren-w-howard, accessed on July 10, 2023.
"Warren Weston Howard" entry in the North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/3259446:60548, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.
"Warren Weston Howard" entry in the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/2332897:9278, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.
"Warren Weston Howard" entry in the U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/22101022:6482, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.
"Warren W Howard" entry in the District of Columbia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1810-1953, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/141039:61404, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.
"Warren Weston Howard" entry in the Florida, U.S., Divorce Index, 1927-2001, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/513334:8837, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.
"Vada Juanita Howard" in the Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/932183:9278, accessed Oct. 28, 2024.