Damon, Howard Curtis

Other Events and Attributes:

• Family: Never married
• Tombstone Photo: Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; Buckfield Village Cemetery
• Census: May 1930, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
• Census: 07 May 1940, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME

Notes:

Howard C. Damon, 75, died Wed, November 6, at Montello Manor Nursing Home. He had previously lived at Schooner Estate for six months. Born in Buckfield, August 23, 1922, the son of Cliford L and Isabelle Gould Damon, he was a 1940 graduate of Buckfield High School. During World War II, Mr. Damon served in the U.S. Army. He was a graduate of the University of Maine and received an advance degree from Bowdoin College.
He Also studied at the Bread Loaf School of Elish at Middlebury College. An educator all his life, he taught at Lee Academy, Maine Maritime Academy, Needham High School at Needham, Mass, The Moses Brown School in Rhode Island and New York University. For 20 years he taught English at Jericho High School, Long Island, New York, where he served as department head until his retirement in 1985 due to ill health. In the 1960 he co-authored a series of English Text Book for the California School System.
Mr. Damon had a life long interest in antiques and with a partner he owned and operated Gould House Antique at Huntington, Long Island.
Survivors include a brother, Clifford of Auburn, a sister, Jeannette of Gray, and several nieces and nephews and their families.