- Date Of Birth: February 10, 1933
- Date Of Death: March 9, 2018
- State: Colorado
Jesse Donald Howard was born on a very cold and snowy night in Denver, Colorado, on February 10, 1933. He was born to Ernest and Jessie Naomi Howard. Jesse was youngest of two children; his older sister Mary Princess was his mother figure his entire life. From a very young age Jesse ‘J. Donald’ as he was fondly called learned and worked under his father’s tutelage in the family business ‘The Howard Hardware Store’, he became extremely proficient at making screens. As Jesse grew up he attended Whittier Elementary School, Cole Junior High and graduated from Manual High School. While at Manual he excelled in military precision drills, to such a degree that he and the team he led were invited to Washington, DC to perform. By this time, he had become a new uncle and his peers began calling him “Uncle Bud”, for the rest of his life he was fondly known as “Buddy”. At sixteen, J. Donald (Uncle Bud) tried to join the Army, his mother was not having her son go off to fight in Korea at such an early age. However, as soon as he graduated from high school he joined the army, along with his best friend. He was always a ‘soldiers’ soldier from basic training to Airborne Ranger Master Blaster. He started as an engineer and finish as a demolition special forces counter intelligence agent, promoted to rank (E8) 1SG. He received many accommodations to include the Bronze Star, he was a true war hero. 1SG Jesse D.
