Career
Her father-in-law with Hamilton Fish Kean, who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1929 to 1935. Her grandson, Thomas Kean, Junior. is the Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Senate. She was a daughter of Thomas H. Howard and Rose Anthony Post Howard and lived in New York City and Hyde Park, New New York
They moved to Livingston, New Jersey in 1924, where they raised six children.
She was a hospital volunteer in Washington during World World War World War II