Howard P. Braun

Howard P. Braun died Jan. 15 in Spokane at the age of 95. Howard was born to Henry P. and Katherine E. (Schoessler) Braun on March 24, 1918, in Ritzville. He was the last survivor of 11 children.

He attended the Willis Country School in Ritzville and then graduated from Ritzville High School in 1935. He went to Oakland, Calif., in the fall of 1935 to attend Polytechnic College of Engineering, where he graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1938. Howard went to work for PG&E as an engineer in December of 1938. He joined the Navy as an Ensign in September 1942 and served in the South...