Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Mast, Howard Dilworth October 27, 2006
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Virginian-Pilot, October 28, 2006
SUFFOLK - Howard Dilworth Mast, 89, died Oct. 27, 2006. 
Born Sept. 12, 1917, in Princess Anne County, Virginia, he was the son of the 
late Charles Howard and Ella Mildred Curtis Mast and widower of Cleo Frizzell 
Mast. He was a 1938 graduate of VPI where he played football and ran track. 
Following graduation, he taught school and coached high school football in 
Richmond, Va., and played semi-pro ball with the Norfolk Shamrocks and Richmond 
Arrows, before joining the Navy. He served on a PT Boat in the Pacific during 
World War II. Upon discharge from the Navy, he taught at Wilson High School in 
Portsmouth and served as assistant football coach for the 1947 Virginia State 
Champions. 
In 1949, he came to the Suffolk Recreation Department as the director, where he 
began a tennis development program and within 10 years, the young people he had 
schooled in tennis were playing for Suffolk High School and were state 
champions. He also founded the Suffolk Tennis Association. 
In 1966, he joined Virginia Wesleyan College as facility engineer, tennis coach 
and instructor in physical education. He retired from Norfolk State University, 
having served for 20 years as the facility engineer. More recently, he served 
as substitute teacher in the Suffolk school system and served as tennis coach 
at Nansemond River High School. 
He served as president of the Mid-Atlantic Tennis Association in the mid-1960s 
and was a former president of the Virginia Tennis Association. He was inducted 
into the Mid-Atlantic Tennis Association Hall of Fame and in 2005 was awarded 
the Outstanding Service Award by the Virginia Tennis Association. 
Survivors include his daughter and son-in-law, Christopher M. and Thomas L. 
Witherspoon of Virginia Beach; brother and sister-in-law, Clyde and El Mast of 
Florida; sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth and William Halstead of Atlanta. 
Memorial services will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Main Street United 
Methodist Church by the Rev. Robert J. Parks and the Rev. John Shappell. Burial 
will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Suffolk Tennis 
Association, P.O. Box 1514, Suffolk, VA 23439, or to Access Aquarium Fund at 
the Virginia Aquarium, 717 General Booth Blvd., Virginia Beach, VA 23451. R.W. 
Baker & Co. Funeral Home & Crematory is serving the family. The family dearly 
appreciates the care provided to Howard by the staff at Autumn Care, Family 
Medicine Associates Inc., Obici Hospital and Comfort Keepers. 



 

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