Howard Elton Lacey (February 9, 1937 in Leakey, Texas – June 21, 2013) was an American mathematician who studied analysis.
[1] He completed his Ph.D. in 1963 New Mexico State University; his dissertation, Generalized Compact Operators in Locally Convex Spaces, was supervised by Edward Thorp.
In 1980 he returned to Texas A&M University as a professor and chair of the mathematics department, a position he held for eleven years.
He also worked in applied research at the White Sands Missile Range and at the Man Space Craft Center in Houston.
[1] He had been married to Bonnie Brown since 1958, whom he met while he was on a summer job with the Army Corps of Engineers in Mississippi in 1957.