Howard A. Wimbley, a retired postal letter carrier and former Essex resident, died Saturday of respiratory failure at a nursing home in Eureka, Mont. He was 86.
Mr. Wimbley was born and raised in Baltimore.
He was a 1935 graduate of St. Michael's parochial school.
During World War II, he served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945, as a pay officer assigned to the Atlantic theater.
Mr. Wimbley was a letter carrier in Essex from 1945 until his retirement in 1991.
Mr. Wimbley, who moved to Eureka a decade ago, was an avid Orioles fan and HO-gauge model railroader.
Surviving are his wife of 62 years, the former Erna G. Drenth; two sons, Kevin Wimbley of Eureka and Mark Wimbley of Seattle; four daughters, Kathy Wimbley of Frederick, Patricia Wembley of Houston, Alice Davis of Blacksburg, Va., and Carolann Curry of Blue Ridge, Va.; and eight grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Tobacco Valley Cemetery in Eureka.