Graveside services for Howard Gaines Jr., 79, of Dover, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in the Greenlawn Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.
Mr. Gaines died Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010.
Born Oct. 18, 1930, in Clarksburg, W.Va., he was the son of the late Howard Gaines Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Freeman Gaines Davis.
Mr. Gaines received his undergraduate degree from Fairmont State College in Fairmont, W.Va., and his graduate degree from the University of Delaware, Newark.
He served in the United States Air Force from 1947 to 1955, and was discharged as a technical sergeant. From 1962 to 1968, he taught senior English at Caesar Rodney High School and from 1968 to 1970 worked for the Delaware Department of Public Instruction.
Mr. Gaines then became associate principal for the middle and high schools in the Appoquinimink School District, where he retired as principal of the Silver Lake Elementary School in July 1991.
He enjoyed reading, doing genealogy research, camping with his family and hunting small game, deer, and waterfowl. He was appointed Delaware Commissioner for Clan Donald USA Inc. and later as the Mid-East Commissioner for Clan Donald, one of the largest and one of the oldest of the Scottish Highland Clans.
Mr. Gaines is survived by his son, Howard Gaines III of Harrington; two daughters and a son-in-law, Elaine Gaines of Dover and Cynthia Gaines Yeomans and John Yeomans of Smyrna; and his grandsons, Jordan, Tyler, and Garrett Yeomans.
Funeral arrangements are by Torbert Funeral Chapels, Dover.
Letters of condolence may be sent and the guestbook signed at www.torbertfuneral.com.
