HOWARD MILNE 1920-2005
Born on Christmas Day, 1920, in Grand Junction, Colorado, Dr. Milne graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he met his future wife, Jane Austin, and then from Northwestern University Medical School, which he attended on a Navy scholarship. In the summer of 1945 he was deployed to the Pacific Theater as a Navy doctor on a mine sweeper USS Thompson, which was among the first American ships to reach Hiroshima after the bombing.
After five years of practicing family medicine as the only doctor in Paonia,
In 1957 he moved with his family to
In 1992 he and Jane, his wife of more than fifty years, moved from their long time
He is preceded in death by his wife, Jane Austin Milne, who died in 1995, and his daughter, Maggie Milne Falke, who died in 1990. He is survived by daughters Nancy MacKay of Oakland and Elizabeth Milne Baum of Palo Alto, and grandchildren Michael and Christiaan Siano of Austin, TX; Ashley Falke of Bakersfield, CA; and Madeline, Grant and Noah Baum of Palo Alto.
At his request, no services will be held. However, it would be a tribute to his memory if friends and family members would play a round of golf or peruse the shelves at Kepler’s Bookstore in his honor, as these were two of his most cherished lifelong pastimes, which he was always eager to share with others.
Donations may be made to
At 1310 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, http://www.castilleja.org/public/gift/online_giving.html or Doctors Without Borders at http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/index.cfm, two organizations that were near and dear to his heart.