Rev. Lawrence Riggs Howard

Boston Herald
Boston, Mass.
Thursday, July 16, 1942
p. 19

Rev. L.R. Howard Rites Tomorrow

THOMPSON, Ct., July 15 -- Funeral services for the Rev. Lawrence R. Howard, for 12 years pastor of the North Church in Cambridge, Mass., will be held here at 11 o'clock Friday morning, with cremation at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

Mr. Howard, retired pastor of the Associated Church here, died yesterday at the age of 67. Services will be held at this church before the body is sent to Cambridge.

Born in Glencore, Ill., Mr. Howard attended Williams College and was graduated from the Union Theological Seminary in 1901. He was ordained that year in Providence, R.I.

Subsequently, he served pastorates at Plainfield, N.J., Oswego, N.Y., the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Neb., and Whitewater, Wis., in addition to Cambridge and West Medway, Mass. He spent a year overseas in the last year with the YMCA and was chaplain at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., in 1927.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Kellogg Howard; two sons, Capt. Richard Howard, Ft. Sill, Okla., and Donal Howard, Thompson; three brothers, Dr. Burt Howard, Sacramento, Calif.; Arthur D., Los Angeles, and D.C. Howard, Hollywood; two sisters, Nina Howard and Mrs. Lester Parker of Rochester, N.Y., and a granddaughter, Margaret Ann Howard of Bethleham, Pa.

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• He worked as a clergyman.

Lawrence married Nina Margaret Kellogg. (Nina Margaret Kellogg was born in 1876 in New York,¹⁰⁵³⁷ died 27 April 1961 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut ^10537,10538 and was buried after 27 April 1961 in Brimfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts at Brimfield Cemetery ¹⁰⁵³⁷.)