J. Howard Marshall Jr. ’43

Howdy died Mar. 11. 1997, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland after a long fight against diabetes and Lyme disease. He was 74.

Close at hand were his wife of 44 years, Penny, and their five children, Tad, Clint, Julia, Margaret, and Alex. Services were held at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Irvington, N.Y., where he had been senior warden.

Unknown to many classmates, Howdy was an AllAmerica lacrosse player on Princeton's 1942 national collegiate championship team. Graduating early, in Jan. 1943, with honors in psychology, Howdy volunteered for flight training in Piper Cubs and then overseas artillery duty in the Pacific.

He served in the 192nd field artillery battalion, 43rd Infantry Division with two classmates, Tom Hardie and Jim Walsh. He saw action in New Guinea and Luzon, the Philippines, and won the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster. He was released from service as a captain, after serving in the occupation of Japan.

Howdy went on to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1949 to join the Manhattan law firm Wickes, Riddell, Bloomer, Jacobi and McGuire. He married the former Penelope S. Spurr, of Fairmont, W.Va., in 1953, and soon moved to Irvington (on the suggestion of the late "Weaver" Stevenson '43), living at "Pond House," near the Hudson, and serving as chairman of the town's planning board.

He retired in 1988 as senior partner in the firm of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius in NYC and moved to Biddeford Pool, Maine, last year.

We extend our sympathy to his widow and family.

The Class of 1943