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Graeme K. Howard was born in California in 1896. In Rye his family lived at 270 Locust Avenue. Graeme served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II.
 Col. Graeme K. Howard, U. S. A. , is home from overseas. His son, Flight Officer Reese E. Howard, U. S. A. Air Corps, is home on leave for a family reunion in their home on Locust Avenue.
September 11. 1946 THE RYE CHRONICLE PAGE NINE
GRAEME K. HOWARD
Graeme K. Howard, former Rye resident, died on Thursday, December 6, in Hartford Hospital at the age of sixty-six. His home was in Norfolk, Conn. Mr. Howard retired in 1950 as president and a director of Ford International Co., foreign operations affiliate of the Ford Motor Co. A graduate of Stanford University in 1917 and the Harvard School of Business Administration in 1920,
Mr. Howard served in World War I as captain of a machine gun unit.
During World War II, he was a colonel in the ordnance branch of the Army, and he headed the U.S. element of tire SHAEF mission to Norway in 1941. The same year he also was chief of the economic division of U.S. Croup Control in Germany. He received the Legion of Merit Medal and the King Haakon Liberation Medal. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Foreign Policy Association. He was the author, in 1940 of a book, ''America and a New World Order.''
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Margaret Evans Howard; two sons. Reese E. and Graeme K. Howard Jr.; a daughter, Mrs. Richard Hollaman, and 10 grandchildren.
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My Grandad! 
