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Howard Grant Earp

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Howard Grant Earp

Birth
Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Death
17 Jan 1999 (aged 89)
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec 08, Lot 89, Grave 7
Memorial ID
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A funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 1999, in Adam's Chapel in Riverview Cemetery for Howard Grant Earp Sr., who died Jan. 17 after an auto accident at age 89. Recitation of the rosary will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, in Mt. Scott Funeral Home.

Mr. Earp was born July 2, 1909, in Butte, Mont., and moved to Payette, Idaho, in 1913. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Portland in 1940, then was a radio engineer for KOIN and KGW until World War II, during which he installed and tested radio equipment in Liberty ships in the Kaiser shipyards. Afterward, he was with the FBI for 26 years, retiring as a special agent in 1966. In 1942, he married Isabel Ann Gilbaugh; she died in 1997.

Survivors include his sons, John H. of Hillsboro, Joseph E. of Blue River, Michael G. of Lake Oswego, Stephen J. of Wilsonville, Pat of Portland and Howard Jr. of Aloha; daughters, Sister Mary Elizabeth of Spokane and Mary M. Ford of Silver Spring, Md.; twin brother, Harold W. of Vero Beach, Fla.; and seven grandchildren.

Arrangements are by Mt. Scott Funeral Home.

[The Oregonian, 21 Jan 1999, p D08]

Son of Vern Grant & Luella C Earp
A funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 1999, in Adam's Chapel in Riverview Cemetery for Howard Grant Earp Sr., who died Jan. 17 after an auto accident at age 89. Recitation of the rosary will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, in Mt. Scott Funeral Home.

Mr. Earp was born July 2, 1909, in Butte, Mont., and moved to Payette, Idaho, in 1913. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Portland in 1940, then was a radio engineer for KOIN and KGW until World War II, during which he installed and tested radio equipment in Liberty ships in the Kaiser shipyards. Afterward, he was with the FBI for 26 years, retiring as a special agent in 1966. In 1942, he married Isabel Ann Gilbaugh; she died in 1997.

Survivors include his sons, John H. of Hillsboro, Joseph E. of Blue River, Michael G. of Lake Oswego, Stephen J. of Wilsonville, Pat of Portland and Howard Jr. of Aloha; daughters, Sister Mary Elizabeth of Spokane and Mary M. Ford of Silver Spring, Md.; twin brother, Harold W. of Vero Beach, Fla.; and seven grandchildren.

Arrangements are by Mt. Scott Funeral Home.

[The Oregonian, 21 Jan 1999, p D08]

Son of Vern Grant & Luella C Earp


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