The sheriff's office released the name at midday, after tabloid reports revealed her name as disclosed by neighbors.
The coroner's office would only officially say the victim was 69, a female, and that family notifications were continuing.
Traffic was flowing normally today at the crash scene, in front of a campground at Latigo Beach. Sheriff's deputies began to collect cellphone records to determine why a tabloid freelance photographer was at the point of impact at the grinding crash on Pacific Coast Highway Saturday.
Howe was killed, and five children and one adult were hurt, in a crash that is being investigated as possibly paparazzi related.
Jenner was being tailed by freelance photographers as his Cadillac Escalade smashed into the Lexus, which had just hit a car that had slowed or stopped for what deputies called "unclear'' reasons.