Nancy Colean Howard

SALISBURY — Beloved mother and grandmother, Nancy Colean Howard of Dobbs Ferry, New York and Salisbury, passed away peacefully on Nov. 9, 2024, at Harbor Point, Centerville, Massachusetts, where she received wonderful care for the last several years.

Born on Nov. 25, 1939, in Huntington, New York, she was the daughter of Edna Mosher Colean and James Russell Colean. In 1975, she married the love of her life, George Marshall Howard, M.D., in Salisbury.

Mrs. Howard graduated from Dobbs Ferry High School, class of 1957 and Randolph Macon Women’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, class of 1961. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority, serving as President of the Beta Chapter in her senior year. In 1962 she received a Master of Science in Education Degree from Gallaudet College (now Gallaudet University) in Washington, D.C. In September of that year, she began teaching in the Middle School at the New York School for the Deaf in White Plains, New York. In 1978 she was appointed Supervising Teacher of the Middle School, having earned a Professional Diploma in Educational Administration from Fordham University. In 1981 she became Assistant Principal of the Lower and Middle Schools and the Deaf Infant Program. In 1995 she became Principal of the Elementary Department, where she served until 1997.

Mrs. Howard was a member of the Church Club of New York, Episcopal Church of St. Joseph of Arimathea in Elmsford, New York, and attended St. John’s Episcopal Church in Salisbury, where she was a Lay Reader, Chalice Bearer, and a former vestry member.
She was a Dame of the American Society of the Royal Order of Saint John, an Episcopal organization that supports the St. John Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem. She and her husband were also members of the Ardsley Country Club.

Nancy is survived by her daughter, Camille Alberico of Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, her son-in-law Bruce Alberico, her two granddaughters, Victoria and Elizabeth Alberico and her four cousins, The Rev. Alvin Mosher of Masonville, New York, Charles Morgan of Wappingers Falls, New York, Donald Mosher of Florida and Richard Morgan of New York.

A memorial service and burial in Vermont will be held at a later date.