Donald W. Howard is the retired minister of St Peter’s Church of England, Sydney, Australia. After experience in agriculture, The Royal Australian Air Force, and journalism, Donald Howard studied Theology at Moore College, Sydney and then served for many years in the pastoral ministry.
While at St. Peter’s, his first wife, Diana, died of cancer at the age of forty-six in 1977, which occasioned the writing of his booklet Christians Grieve Too.
After an active preaching ministry since his retirement in 1992, he and his second wife Nan became members of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney. He has four children and eleven grandchildren from his first marriage, and he and Nan have two daughters. Donald and Nan live in Camden, NSW.
Donald Howard is also the author of the Trust’s booklet Burial or Cremation?.