Location: J-Payne

Born: August 14, 1879 Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama

Died: December 5, 1965 Waco, McLennan County, Texas

Daughter of John Brannon and Mary Moore Brannon

Parents:
J A Brannon (1849 – 1898)
Mary Adda Turner Brannon (1859 – 1915)

Spouse: Drew Thomas Howle

Children:
Roy Sylvin Howle (1898 – 1966)
Erma Gertrude Howle Thomas (1900 – 1942)
Ralph Howle (1916 – 1922)

Mrs. D. T. Howle, 86, of Waco died at 4:50 a.m. Sunday in a  Waco hospital.

Funeral services were to be at 2:30 p.m. today in China Spring Baptist Church.  Rev. Paul Smith was to officiate with burial in China Spring Cemetery.

Mrs. Howle was born in Heflin, Al., daughter of the late John and Mary Brannon.  She married the late D. T. Howle on Nov. 1, 1896, at Bell Mills, Ala.  He died in 1943.

Mrs. Howle moved to China Spring in 1906.  She had been a member of the China Spring Baptist church since that time.  She was a member of the Women’s Missionary Union in the church and taught the boys’ Sunday School class for more than a third of a century.  She moved to Waco in 1950.

She had been ill for three years.

Surviving are four sons, Roy S. Howle of 1117 North Fourteenth Street, John C. Howle of Wichita Falls, Ray B. Howle of Nederland and Rex W. Howle of Arlington; four daughters, Mrs. A. L. Warren of 200 North Thirty-ninth Street, Mrs. A. F. Avant of Nixon, Mrs. J. W. Dodd, of Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. H. C. Barger of Dallas; one brother, Rev. Henry T. Brannon of Tate Springs; 19 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.