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In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
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Ben Howland's father dies
Friday June 20, 2003
LOS ANGELES (AP) Robert L. Howland, the father of UCLA coach
Ben Howland, has died at a Marin County hospital from a head injury
following a fall, the school said Friday. He was 76.
The elder Howland died Thursday night. He was attending a family
wedding/picnic in the San Francisco area on May 24 when he fell.
Howland was a Presbyterian minister for 33 years. He was
ordained in Lebanon, Ore., on May 8, 1957 the same day Ben
Howland was born.
Howland served with the UC Santa Barbara Religious Conference
from 1960-72 and was also minister at the Goleta Presbyterian
Church. He served seven churches in the greater Los Angeles area
from 1972-90, living in Cerritos. He retired in 1994 and returned
to Santa Barbara.
Howland's immediate survivors are his wife, Mary; three sons,
Steve, 49, Ben, 46 and Jonathan, 42, and a daughter, Barbara, 44.
Ben Howland became the coach at UCLA on April 3. He spent the
previous four seasons at Pittsburgh and was also the head coach at
Northern Arizona.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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