{"id":327485,"date":"2025-12-05T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327485\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:50:08","slug":"nl-business-leader-frank-howard-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327485\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Business Leader Frank Howard Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/frank-howard.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NL Business Leader Frank Howard Passes Away\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Submitted Photo)<\/p>\n<p>A man who made his mark on the auto sector in  Newfoundland and Labrador has passed away. <\/p>\n<p>Frank Howard, the President and Founder of the Capital Auto Group, lost his battle with cancer yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>From humble beginnings and a single dealership, Howard built what became Capital Auto Group, a team of more than 500 employees across 10 automotive brands, and The Howard Group, which oversees the Howard Properties real estate portfolio. <\/p>\n<p>He received countless honours over the years, including the CADA Laureate Award for Ambassadorship and, most recently, induction into the JANL Business Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n<p>His family says Frank believed that the greatest success in business was the ability to give back to the community that supported him. <\/p>\n<p>In lieu of a wake and funeral, a celebration of life to honour Howards memory will be held in the near future. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-1663.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img-1663.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286655\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-286655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Howard in a 2023 photo via Capital Auto Group Facebook)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Submitted Photo) A man who made his mark on the auto sector in Newfoundland and Labrador has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-327485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}