From John Dukes: 

Many of us have had the experience: Taking photographs with a garage sale  3-D camera—and feeling totally alone in the world—we finally, often after years, meet another 3-D photographer. And our life changes.

My extraordinary fortune was that the other person was Howard Frazee. He opened the 3-D world to me, as he did to probably hundreds of others.

A master photographer, he shared his skills and tricks with all. A talented collector, he invited all over to his home to enjoy his collection. An extraordinarily talented inventor and craftsman, he developed new color techniques and designed, built and often gave away all sorts of 3-D apparatus from camera jigs to ingenious, usually beautiful, and frequently whimsical 3-D viewers. (I remember with delight his Rolodex File to rotary sequence viewer conversion.)

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Those stereographers who had the good luck to encounter him (perhaps at the 1982 San Jose NSA show where he was everywhere quietly helping everyone as deputy director for physical arrangements) may well have not known his many other talents. He knew and loved flowers and he collected and raised fuschias. He built a pipe organ into his home for his wife Helen. Although I knew him many years and knew of his automobile restorations and collections (three-wheeled Morgans!), and knew of his superb historical trolley restorations for the City of San Jose, and knew of his professional skills as electrical engineer in charge of the wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Field, I learned only at his memorial service that he had also been a pilot and a skilled actor.

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But manifold though Howard's skills were, they always involved generosity and sharing and a wonderful good nature. His skills were inseparable from the spirit with which he used them.
We have lost a very special friend.