Howard was one of a kind!  A dedicated, loving and loyal husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather.  Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming to Leon Hebert and Howardine Donahue a mere 91 years ago.  He is now partying and singing with his parents and siblings, Leon Hebert, Howardine Schroll and Judy Schepp as they reunite in heaven.

Howard was lovingly married to his wife, Catherine Ward of 71 years.  At only 3 months older than him, he routinely stated to anyone who would listen "it was *bleep* being married to an older woman"!  He is also survived by son Ricky (Kiki Deane), daughter Suzy, grandson Jason (Mona), granddaughter Angie McCreavy (Patrick), great granddaughters Katey Kaczar, Izzy Hebert, and great grandsons Parker Hebert, Rylan and Teagan McCreavy.  Howard was predeceased by son Billy in 1988.

Howard was ever so proud of his home state of Wyoming, or God's Country as he referred to it.  He married Cathy there in 1950, and started raising their 3 kids in Cheyenne.  Howard was an ambitious man learning many trades in his younger years.  From gandy dancer working on the railways, to highway construction to oil refinery boilerman.  Somehow, he figured out that the stock market was the place to be, and a desk job was much more preferrable than the hard labor work.  As a result, he and two other friends formed a Cheyenne based brokerage firm in 1961, Bayer, Hebert, Wake & Co. This was where the magic began in his ardent study of the intricacies of the stock market.

In 1964 the brokerage business lured him to the big city of Denver, Colorado and Howard became a prominent stockbroker for Hornblower and Weeks. While there, he developed an extensive technical stock analysis program, the first of its kind in 1968. In addition to selling his research work to prominent money managers across the country, he became an Investment Advisor and Manager himself while working with various broker dealer firms. In 1992 Howard and his daughter Suzanne formed a successful independent Investment Management Business. They later included his son Rick in the business in 2000, who took over the full reins in 2008. Rick brought in his son Jason and daughter-in-law Mona into the fold, and they continue today providing sound technical analysis, investment advice and money management. Howard was truly proud that his work lives and breathes on, very successfully, through the family run Hebert Investments.

Howard made quite the effort to go to the monthly 'Lunch Bunch' lunches with all of his high school buddies in Cheyenne for years.  He would love to hang out and trade nefarious tales and then visit family and give his famous cinnamon sour dough bread to his favorites.  They still would let him know of the lunch dates after he came to Florida, but he couldn't make that drive in a day!

Howard and Cathy followed Suzanne to Florida in 2013 to live as snowbirds, and then full timers in 2016.  Howard loved the weather – especially the heat and humidity!  He always wondered why it took him so long to get away from the cold and dry Colorado.  He enjoyed having his coffee overlooking the Tomoka River Basin from his favorite Adirondack chair in the lanai. More favorites were his walks and scooter rides out to the end of the dock with a little bit of fishing and boating thrown in. A couple years ago he enjoyed supervising the building of grandson Jason's house just down the street. Once they settled in, he particularly favored their tomato garden and the delicious meals and many deserts that Jason, Mona, Izzy and Parker would spoil everyone with, especially the apple pies.

Howard was an astute self-taught musician.  He could play anything with strings – guitar, ukulele, banjo and piano.  You could find him at his keyboard for hours, until his eyesight prevented him from playing these last few years. He also loved barbershop singing, being a part of many choruses and quartets throughout all the years.  Howie, as his fellow barber shoppers called him, was always the last one to leave the 'after glow', and hosted many 'ever glows' at home where the singing would go on till dawn! He was also an avid gardener in Colorado and loved to spend many days tending to it, growing the best tomatoes, the biggest pumpkins, delicious grapes and assorted veggies along with various fruit trees.  Sailing was also a huge passion for him.  He started sailboat racing shortly after moving to Colorado with the local Snipe fleet.  The kids all did their share of crewing for him, whether they wanted to or not!  In 1968 he and a handful of sailing buffs purchased the 156' Schooner The Te Vega.  Quite impressive, but briefly owned due to some bad bookkeeping of the majority owner!  Howard and Cathy did enjoy the shakedown cruise before it transported tourists on Caribbean vacations. (scary, rosary bead ride according to Cathy however!).

In the 70's Howard bought a 23' cabin cruising sailboat (he aptly named it Love Affair) and he, Cathy and Suzy traveled to a host of reservoirs to sail, 'camp' and race.  He and some buddies sailed it across the Sea of Cortez in the early 70's and a few years later from Key West Florida to the Bahama's.  He also organized 'guys' weekend sailing trips with his workmates, and close friends Ted Cowan and Don Carlsen for many years. He entertained everyone with many tales, not only of those sailing trips, but of his earlier life as well.  However, we were always kept wondering how much of his dinner table tales were really true!  Was he really a cowboy?  Did Cathy really scout him out and buy him a beer when he was underage? What's that thing about a war injury?

Howard was not able to travel the past few years, so he enjoyed it immensely when family and friends would escape the cold winters and visit in Florida. In lieu of flowers, Howard would probably prefer you invest your money into a long-term retirement investment, or perhaps you might consider donating to Howard's favorite organization – Barbershop Harmony Society at https://www.barbershop.org.