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- The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
February 27, 2009
Elliot Castleton Howe passed to the next life February 24, 2009, with his family around him, six days before his 89th birthday. He was born March 2, 1920, in Salt Lake City to Florence Castleton and Charles Ralph Howe.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II, qualifying as a B-29 co-pilot just before the end of the war. After completing a B.A. and M.A. at Brigham Young University, he completed an Ed.D. at the University of Utah. He married his sweetheart Maralyne Haskell August 25, 1948 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, and they celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary last year. They are the parents of nine children: Susan (Cless) Young; Carolyn; Michelle (Mel) Pyne; Jack (Kristin); Nancy (Greg) Bean; Joseph (Kjirsten); Ralph; Dale (Crystal); and Alan (Koleen). They currently have 34 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
Elliot worked as an educator throughout his career, beginning as a fifth grade teacher at Maeser Elementary, then assistant professor of elementary education and acting principal of the BYU Lab School; and spending most of his career as a foreign language specialist, first for the Alpine School District and then twenty years for the Utah State Office of Education, traveling to Switzerland, France, Egypt, and Mexico in work assignments. He particularly loved Spanish, and spoke it whenever he could. After retiring, he and his wife taught English for a year at Nanjing Forestry University in China. Elliot had great faith and served in many capacities in the LDS Church: missionary in the Spanish-American Mission (1940-43); bishop of the Pleasant Grove Manila Ward (1960-65); president of the Texas Mission (1967-70); and in many other ward and stake callings. A long-time resident of Pleasant Grove, he loved family activities, BYU sports, hunting, nurturing his iris and rose gardens, growing grapes, apricots, apples, and peaches, attending the temple, and doing genealogy. He was known for his sense of humor, his hard work, and his humility.
He is preceded in death by three children (Carolyn, Nancy, and Ralph), his parents, his brother Dale and his two sisters June H. Johnson and Janet H. Green.
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