- Date Of Birth: July 21, 1928
- Date Of Death: September 25, 2022
- State: Florida
Harry Richardson Elden Jr. passed into his Eternal Life with the Risen Christ on Sunday September 25 peacefully at home. He joins his late wife, Anne Buchy Elden, and son Gregory Charles Elden who preceded him into the Lord’s Open Arms. His children and their spouses are Harry III & Susana, Phyllis (Hank), Celeste (Mike), Mary & Darel. His grandchildren, Andrew and Shanchita, great-granddaughter Amara, Jennifer, Christopher and Liz and great-grandsons August and Wesley, Dominique, and A.J and great-granddaughter Alexandra, Benjamin, and Nicholas, Michael, Adrian and Andy. Another great-grandson, Atlas is due in November. He was Uncle Harry to Barry, Carol Ann, Kathleen, Philip III, Margaret Mary and Kevin John and Marianne, Marshall and Loretta. His cousins were Peter Joseph, Margaret Mary, Roseann, Arthur, Jr.
Harry’s parents, Harry Richardson Elden Sr. and Alice Bertha Clark and his bother Guy and his wife Barbara, preceded him into Eternal Life. His brother Walter and Karen and sister Jeanette (Ray) survive him. Harry was born in Miami in 1928 and grew up near Miami Jackson High School on a land that is now owned by the Salvation Army campus. Later they moved to North Miami where he attended William Jennings Bryan Junior High, Miami Edison Senior high where he played varsity football and ran track. From there he earned his bachelor’s degree in Bio-Chemistry at the University of Miami where he met his wife Anne, who commuted every weekend from West Palm Beach where she lived with her parents.
He earned his PhD in Gerontology from Catholic University in Washington DC and returned to Miami to work for Dr. Robert Boucek, MD at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute then headquartered here in Miami’s Civic Center near Jackson Memorial Hospital.
He worked for the National Institute of Health for three years in Baltimore, Md, but returned to his home in Miami to join the science department at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy and later Biscayne College in Miami. He worked extensively on Biscayne College’s application for university status to become St.
He later took a position with Xienta Corp as Chief Science Officer in Bernville, Pa and directed a research department for Johnson Wax in Racine, Wi., before returning to his beloved home near Epiphany Parish for the second time to retire.
Harry and Anne loved their life together having celebrated just shy of 63 wedding anniversaries together. He loved his home where he spent 58 years, providing a place to live for not only his five children, but both his parents, his wife Anne’s parents as well as well two adult children and four grandchildren. When his son, Gregory suffered a devastating spinal cord injury on Columbus Day in Biscayne Bay Harry and Anne with the help of Barbara, Izlene and Carol cared for Gregory for 21 years before his passing.
He fondly remembered his days playing trumpet in the Miami Drum and Bugle Corp in the Miami National Guard Armory on NW 36 Street and 7th Avenue. He was a member of the Miami Shores Optimist Club where he enjoyed Forensics (public speaking) and Adagio (co-ed dance class). He held several patents, and he mixed his own line of skin care creams and lotions in his garage-laboratory.
