Howard Kaye, 87, of Middleburg, VA on February 4, 2006 of complications from pneumonia. Born in Belmont, Massachusetts on October 3, 1918 Mr. Kaye attended the Faye School and St. Marks School in Southboro, Massachusetts, and Yale University where he played on the varsity football and baseball teams, and was a member of the Fence Club and Scroll and Key. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II on a submarine chaser, an aircraft carrier, and a destroyer-escort, the Francis M. Robinson, when it sank the first Japanese submarine caught in the Atlantic Ocean. He worked for a time for the Mead Paper Corporation, and after a bout with tuberculosis, managed the Middleburg Training Track which was then owned by Paul Mellon. He is survived by his wife, Nathalie Hazard Kaye, and three sons, Howard Kaye, Jr.. of Boston, Massachusetts, Woodward Livingston Kaye of Laurel Hollow, New York, and William Evans Kaye, of Washington, D.C. and five grandchildren. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Middleburg Rescue Squad or the Piedmont Environmental Council.