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Donald D. Howard

Born 1950s.

Ancestors

Son of Donald Whiddon Howard

and Dorothy (Lopez) Howard

Brother of [private brother (1960s - unknown)]

Father of [private daughter (1980s - unknown)]

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Biography

Donald Dwayne Howard was born on February 5th, 1954 at the Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Donald Whiddon Howard and Dorothy Amelia Lopez. ^[1] ^[2]

Personal Life

Our Family

I was born in San Antonio, Texas on February 5, 1954, son of Donald Whiddon Howard and Dorothy Amelia Lopez.

Although born in San Antonio, we moved from there to Fairborn, Ohio where my father worked at Wright Patterson AFB. I graduated from Fairborn Park Hills High School, in Fairborn, Ohio in 1972.

My college years were spent mostly at the University of North Texas as a music major, eventually earning a Bachelor of Music degree in 1976. During that time, and after, I spent several years playing commercial music, professionally.

Reba McEntire Band (1985-88)
(Donny Howard: back row, second from left)

In the 80s, I became interested in Country Music, and was eventually hired as keyboardist and backing vocalist for internationally known entertainer, Reba McIntire. I spent four years traveling the USA and abroad in her touring band, as well as other Nashville recording artists.

In the mid 90s, upon starting a family, I began a teaching career in rural Robertson County, TN, near Nashville. After 20 years of service, I retired as a public school music teacher and began to teach private piano lessons.

Donny and wife, Nita.

Currently still a piano teacher, I am married to Nita Brown Howard. Life has been good to me, and I am thankful to God for that.

Genealogy

In the early 1990s, my mother's genealogical interest inspired me, and I joined her in the study of family history. At that time, my mom worked on her lines and my dad's lines, while I worked on my daughter's mother's side.

During those years, I spent a lot of time at the TN State Library in Nashville, looking through microfilm records and such. Genealogy was a special hobby that me and my mother shared together, until her sudden passing in 1995.

At my father's 90th birthday in November of 2017, I learned that he had been given a DNA test as a gift. Nita, my wife, had been adopted - which inspired her to learn more about her roots. Soon after, Nita was tested at Ancestry.com.

Since then, we have found the identities of both parents, 3 living sisters, and many cousins. One cousin, Shannon Hickey, has joined Wikitree, and has a Facebook genealogical page with many of Nita's cousins. It is called Hickey Ancestry

The process of finding the many cousins (to discover my wife's parentage) was so interesting that I had my own DNA tested, and have been finding and meeting new cousins ever since!

Upon finding so many interesting new cousins, I eventually began a multi-family genealogical group on Facebook, Howard and Allied Families. It's now over 700 members.

In May of 2016, I was chosen as Wikitree Member Of The Week! (see Member of the Week Interview for Don Howard - something my mom would have been very proud of.

Mathew Howard (1609-1959)

My 9th great-grandfather is Matthew Howard Sr. (1609-1659). Several well known books have been written about Matthew stating that he was a descendant of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk. This has since been deemed unprovable, although there remain other theories. At least two of his sons used the royal Norfolk Howard crest on wax seals for legal documents. Matthew is part of the Maryland Project.

Y-DNA and Matthew Howard

I have been tested at FTDNA for my Ydna (through 111 markers + Big Y test) and placed in lineage 14 of the Howard Project at FTDNA (which primarily consists of members with genealogies leading to Matthew Howard).

Howard and Allied Families Facebook Group

In August of 2016, I started a multi-family genealogy group on Facebook, Howard and Allied Families , and began to add cousins from all sides of my tree, near and distant. It now has over 700 people.

One of the interesting aspects of this group are the Howards that have joined. Membership includes Howards from 3 different ancestral lines of Howards:

My line going to Matthew Howard
Line going to Thomas J Howard
One going to Samuel Howard.

Lopez and Allied Families Facebook Group

Created more recently for my Tejano cousins and descendants of the founders of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, Mexico. URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/615718743380750

Notable Relatives of mine

Presidents of the USA

Harry Truman 3c3r - 33rd President

Common Ancestors: 1) Johann George Young Sr and Anna (Ferry) Young and 2) 3c4r - Hans Michael Gutknecht and Mary (Landis) Goodnight (note: multiple ancestors from marriages between Youngs and Goodnights)

Relatioship Chart for the Young connection

(see drop-down menu listed below the above chart for the additional relationship)

Thomas Jefferson 3c7r - 3rd President

Common Ancestors: Joseph Royall Jr. and Kattherine (Banks)

Relatioship Chart

William Taft 7c5r- 27th President

Common Ancestors: Richard Godfrey and Margaret Temple

Donald Howard

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Personal Life

Genealogy

Mathew Howard (1609-1959)

Y-DNA and Matthew Howard

Howard and Allied Families Facebook Group

Lopez and Allied Families Facebook Group

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