Walking history book of Wichita Falls, husband, father,
grandpa, uncle Dean, no matter how you knew him you
never forgot him. Dean never met a stranger in his life.
He could tell a 6 year old grandchild a story that would
have them spellbound for hours. The wordsjust kept
on coming and coming, just like a water spring they
never stopped.
I always regard that I didn’t have the opportunity to be
around him and grandma Howard more. My father and
mother divorced when I was very little and it was
always a special treat for me to go over to their house.
Dean came into the world on December 16, 1876 in
McClellan Co, TX. He was a birthday and a Christmas
present to his parents. His mother, Louisa’s birthday
was on December 15 just one day earlier. When he
ame into the world he had one sister, Irene, age 3,
two brothers, Charlie 10, and Arthur 5.
Ulysses S. Grant was the eighteenth president of the
United States and General Custer had been defeated
at Little Big Horn in June, 1876. Jack London, the
popular author and Mata Hari, the famous dancer and
spy was also born in 1876. Sometime between his birth
and 1877 the family loaded everything into a wagon
and moved to the Dry Creek area in Parker Co., TX.
Texas Anna was born in 1877 in Parker Co. This gave
Dean two sisters and two brothers.
There is some confusion as to the year the Howard
family moved to Wichita County. Some accounts say it
was 1880 and others 1881. The family is listed on the
1880 Parker Co., TX census but both Dean and his
brother Arthur say it was 1880 in the book, “Pioneers
Remember” a book of interviews from the Golden Jubilee
Celebration held in Wichita Falls in September, 1932.
Dean’s uncle F. M. Davis moved from Parker County
to Wichita County sometime prior to 1880 because
his family is on the 1880 Wichita County census. Dean
says, "Uncle" Marion came to Parker County and talked
my dad into moving to Wichita County. In March of
1881 they loaded every thing into a wagon and started
the four day trip to Wichita County.
On March 6, 1881, when Dean was 4 years old, the
covered wagon bearing the Howard family, topped a
knoll near the mesquite flats along the south bank of
the Wichita river at a location not far from some
dugouts of other settlers. There the family of Squire
Howard, a Confederate veteran beheld the tiny cluster
of cabins set on the snow covered prairie. They stopped
the wagon, set up their tarpaulin tent, staked their
horses and cow and became a part of the little
community that was to become the City of Wichita Falls.
They lived in a tent until they could build a two room cabin
with logs cut from the river bottom. The log cabin was on the
site of where the old Fort Worth & Denver City Railway
roundhouse. Young Dean had many opportunities to see the
famed Indians Geromimo and Quanah Parker, know to every
inhabitant at the time as the leader of recurrent raids against
white settlers. Ave. The Howard family at this time consisted
of William 37, Louisa 35 and children, Charlie 15, Arthur 10,
Irene 8 and Dean 4.
According to Arthur Howard, Dean’s older brother in 1880
there was only one general merchandise store, Ballew &
Williams and one blacksmith shop. At that time Burkburnett
was called Nestorville. Henrietta was called Cambridge and
Riverside Cemetery only had three graves. There was a
water well on Ohio street in front of the Studio Hotel and one
on 7th St. beside curb of Williams Store about 30 feet from
the Ohio Street Corner.
In March of 1881 James A Garfield was inaugurated
president of the United States and on July 2, 1881 was in
a Washington railroad station when he was shot in the back.
In May 1881 the American Red Cross is organized by Clara
Barton (1821-1912). She was elected president
of the American branch...................
In 1947 Dean was interviewed for a article by Norma Jean
Morris. Dean talks about going to school in a one room log
cabin near the present location of Scott & Tenth, where his
teacher was Lula Barwise, later to be Mrs. A. H. Carrigan.
No desks and the seats were spilt logs with pegs driven into
them for legs. Dean remembers the Ft. Worth and Denver
was the first railroad into Wichita Falls when he was about
6 years old. For several years this was the end of the line.
Along about the same time there was a town lot sale, Sept. 27,
1882, which brought many people into town. The town began to
grow into a regular western town. Saloons were everywhere, a
few stores and a bank were erected.
In 1882 Wichita Falls was a pretty bad town in which to live.
Hardly a night went by but someone was killed, Every one
that was big enough to handle guns wore one. Dances were
the main source of entertainment, and guns were not and
uncommon sight at one. It was then that the need for law and
order became evident. F. M. Davis, Dean’s uncle, was elected
first sheriff of Wichita County on 21 June 1882. He served
nine years in this capacity. Dean’s father, W. J. Howard was
elected the first Justice of the Peace and was also later elected
sheriff. F. M Davis arrested them and his brother in law,
W. J. Howard sentenced them. >G<
Dean also says, a tribe of Commanche Indians use to camp
between 5th St. and the river on Indiana near Wichita Falls about
this time. There was an old Cottonwood grove there. They were not
very dangerous, but they were always stealing anything that they
could get their hands on. Dean said that he was in the kitchen with
his mother one day when all of a sudden two Indians ran into the
back yard and stole all the clothing from the wash line. (Today that
doesn’t seem so bad, but back then stores and money were scarce)
Dean gives his version of how Wichita Falls got it’s name and what
happened to the falls. “In the early days there was a natural water
falls in the Wichita River where the town was, so thus the town was
named. In about 1883 a man by the name of Watenburger built a rock
dam across the river above the natural falls with the idea of obtaining
water power to run a mill, but the very next year excessive rains fell
and the dam was washed away and at the same time the temporarily
impounded water rushed on with such force that it also washed away
the natural falls, and since that time there have been no noticeable
falls in the river.
Dean’s dad, W. J. Howard and his uncle F. M Davis had a
wagon yard on 7th St. during 1883. Dean and his brothers
Arthur and Charlie spent a lot of time working and playing
there. At this time life was uneventful for young Dean. He
did the same things that all boys did of that era, swam the
creeks, hunted, fished and got into the usual mischief.
Close to Thanksgiving, November 26, 1884, Dean had a new baby
brother. William James Howard Jr. was born. The first Howard
to be born in Wichita County? During this same time Grover
Cleveland was elected the 22nd president of the United States.
On March 13, 1885 President Cleveland warns settlers to stay
off Indian lands in Oklahoma. The government has waged a harsh
war to round up the nomadic Indians and fence them onto these
acres. However by 1900 the land will be settled by the strongest
and most persistent of settlers
Everything was going good for the Howard family and Wichita
Falls until 1886 thru 1887 when it forgot how to rain. Dean was
10 years old when this happened. Before the drought there were
antelope, panthers. wild cats, prairie chickens, wild turkey and
quail in abundance. It wasn’t anything to see wild turkeys in flocks of
two or three hundred and some buffalo. The grass was over your head.
The big drought clutched North Texas in a grip that almost broke up
Wichita County. Like everyone else, Dean said we were hard hit.
During the Drought of 1886 -1887 Dean’s father refused to take a
pauper’s oath to get federal aid, but hunted and trapped on Beaver
Creek to provide for his family. Dean tells these stories abut the
drought and the bank robbery in a newspaper interview of him, Charlie,
his brother and Ida his wife. , "My dad had a barn full of horses and
nothing to feed them. A carload of corn from Louisiana was shipped
in and we lost 27 horses with the blind staggers before we knew what
was happening. The corn had smut on it which is poisonous to horses."
Charlie said, " I lost 10 head by turning them in the corn field at the
Burk Burnett ranch." (Charlie was a short man just like his father W. J.
Howard Sr. He looked like a cowboy) Charlie rode for Burnett while he
was growing up from 17yr to 28yr. (It was so hot hens laid hard boiled
eggs, we ate so many rabbits during this time that every time
we heard a dog bark, we ran under the house
Grandpa said, "That ain't nothing. It was so hot , dry and sultry ,
that great lakes of mirages would form out in the valley from our house.
A bunch of ducks were flying around one day looking for water. they
saw this great lake of imaginary water and made a dive for it. They
hit the ground so hard, it killed the whole bunch, so mama told us to
go start picking up ducks. We found one big mallard with a canteen
around his neck. Well, we had baked duck, stewed duck and duck
soup. We ate so much duck we couldn’t look a duck in the face for a year.
When we first moved here the Big Wichita River ran close to the bluff
where the auditorium is now, but it later changed its course during a flood.
There was a lake, named Crescent Lake in front of the Courthouse.
It was drained and filled in later.
Dean had a new sister on February 3, 1888 Josephine Howard
was born. During this same month a cyclone twists through
Mount Vernon, ILL. destroying the city and killing 35 people.
Dramatic destruction in the form of floods, twisters, and insect
plagues is haunting the settlers of the Midwest.
One month later in March 1888 The Great Blizzard of 1888 strikes
an unprepared Atlantic Seaboard. The center of the storm is New York,
City. For 36 hours snow falls and cuts the city off from the nation.
causes 25,000,000 in damage ( In today’s money that would be
$451,600,877) and killed 400 people.
In 1896 two cowboys, Foster Crawford and Kid Lewis, tried to rob a
bank. In the process they shot and killed Frank Dorsey, the cashier.
They escaped on horseback, but were caught in a few hours and were
later hanged by a mob at 7th & Ohio. Dean and Charlie talk about it in
a newspaper interview dated April 24, 1949.
They didn’t need hanging any more than some of the people who
hanged them, Charlie said. “Foster and I had lived together two winters
at a line camp. He was a good man, a fine worker. But he would get off
and get to drinking, Charlie said,” Before the hanging, Kid Lewis asked
the mob not to hang Crawford since he, Lewis had been the triggerman
who had killed Frank Dorsey, the cashier, The kid said it was an accident
that he didn’t mean to shoot and that Foster had noting to do with it, but
they hanged him anyway.
The bodies were laid inside Fred Frys saloon for exhibition. The kid and
Foster weren’t really bad, just wild and liquored up. My grandmother
Ida Howard said, “Both robbers were placed in a single box and buried.
From that date on until she died on May 24, 1953 she would place flowers
on their graves. When someone ask her why, she would answer they had
a mother somewhere who loved them. After she died, her daughter and my
aunt Irene Hightower continued the practice.
Dean said. “ I was working for the Wichita Valley Railroad in Dundee, TX
the evening of the robbery and a train came through dropping circulars
advertising a "necktie party" tonight in Wichita Falls.
In 1896 Dean was 20 years old and single, he now had 3 brothers, Arthur,
Charlie and W. J. Howard Jr. and 3 sisters, Irene, Josephine and
Texas Anna. Sometimes Texas Anna is called Texana but on her grave
it is Texas Anna. This is about the same time that Gold was discovered
in Klondike Creek , Canada near Alaska, within 3 years, 100,000 people
were prospecting and freezing. Also the Spanish-American war was approaching.
About this time Dean met a beautiful young 19 year old lady named Ida
Belle Alred, daughter of William Alred and Semilda “Norris” Alred. They
were married on July 7, 1901 The Alred family moved from Denton County
and first settled in Wichita Falls in summer of 1885 when she was 3 years
old. Grandma says her father, worked for George Soule and drove a stage
coach to Benjamin, TX. A distance of about 80 miles.
She gives the following account of a time when she was a girl. “I remember
a dam built across the Big Wichita River, just above where the Ohio Street
bridge now stands. There came a rainy spell. The river got very high. It was
washing out the rock dam. My father was working for Mr. George A. Soule in
a Livery Stable. He took us down to the river in a buggy to see the high water.
While we were looking at the river, the horses became unruly and came very
near backing the buggy off into the river. I remember that incident very
distinctly. (This was in 1932 when she told this story) In 1887 the Alred
family moved to Electra, TX. They were the first family in Electra, TX. It
was called Beaver Switch at that time....
On July 1, 1898 Theodore Roosevelt made his famous charge up San Juan Hill
during the Spanish-American War. This event received quite a bit of attention in
United States papers and Roosevelt used his fame to later become president.
At this time William McKinley (25th) was president and Theodore Roosevelt
was vice president. William McKinley would be shot in September 1901 and
forty two year old Theodore Roosevelt would take the oath of office.
On April 22, 1903 Gladys Belle was born, at this time Dean was 26 and Ida
Belle was 21. The Dean Howard Family had started. On May 12, 1905
another daughter, Dena Joy, was born.
Sometime in 1907 Dean and his family moved to Aspermont, TX. His sister
Irene Tucker was living there also. At this time Dean would have been about
31 years old, wife Ida about 25 and they had 3 children, Gladys 3, Dena Joy 2
and my Dad Ross, who was born there on July 6, 1907. I haven’t discovered
why they were there, but it is almost certain to find work.
In November 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state.
On March 5, 1908 a article in the Wichita Falls paper states, “Mr. Dean Howard
who has been making his home at Aspermont, Texas for the past year will
return with his family to this city in a few days to again make Wichita Falls their
home. Mr. Howard having been appointed sexton of Riverside Cemetery. They
have many friends here who will welcome their return. Sexton doesn’t have
anything to do with Sex. Grandpa probably didn’t know that when he took the
job. (Ha Ha) The dictionary says sexton is an employee of a church
who is responsible for the care and upkeep of church property and sometimes
for ringing bells and digging graves. They moved into 502 Holliday.
In October, 1908 Henry Ford introduces his famous Model T. It sells for an
expensive $850. In 1908, Eight Hundred Fifty dollars would have the same
value as $15, 879 in 2000. By 1926 it will sell for $310. ($5751 in today’s dollars)
Alma Irene was born on August 5, 1909. This would be their fourth child,
3 girls and 1 boy. The 1910 City Directory shows they were living at 502
Holliday and Dean was still sexton at Riverside Cemetery.
On May 2, 1910 a tragedy hit the family with the death of 5 year old
Dena Joy. She is buried in Riverside Cemetery in the same plot where
Grandpa & Grandma are buried.............
In 1912 Dean went to work for the Wichita Falls Traction Co., they
operated the street car service in Wichita Falls. He worked for them
the next 7 years until 1920. The family lived at various addresses.
1912-2015 9th, 1913-Lake Wichita, 1914-15 at 1908 8th,
1916-704 Van Buren, 1917-18-1404 Taylor.
On October 31, 1912, Dean saved two men from drowning in Lake Wichita.
They were duck hunting. Later on he was awarded a gold watch for his heroism.
Dean joined the Masonic Lodge on 8-21-1914 and was working as a Street Car
driver. My Dad, Ross Howard, tells this story about one time, in 1914 when he
was 7 years old. He was riding the streetcar with his dad on the way to Lake
Wichita. My dad was the only one on the streetcar when this happened. Grandpa
Howard was chewing tobacco and my dad asked him for some. He gave him some
and of course he got sick and had to throw up, so my granddad open the doors to
the streetcar so he could lay down and throw up. Ross says the weeds were
brushing the streetcar right by his face but he didn't care he was so sick.
The same thing happened to me(Bobby Howard) with my Dad when I was
16 years old except it was in a hay field in Oklahoma.
Eva Jo was born June 8, 1915. At this time World War l was approaching.
In March 1915, Britain declares a blockade of all German Ports.. In May
without warning, the American tanker Gulflight is sunk by a German U-boat.
In April, 1917 the United States declares war against Germany.
Dean’s father Judge W. J. Howard had been in feeble health for several years
and on January 14, 1918 he died of a heart attack. One day later Dean’s mother
Louisa died and his father and mother were buried on the same day
January 22, 1918 and laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery in Wichita Falls, TX.
the city that W. J. helped built. At the time of his death W. J. Howard was
justice of the peace in precinct No. 1, place 2 and office he had held for
several years. The funeral was delayed for a few days so Charlie Howard
could come from South Dakota.
November 11, 1918 Germany signs the armistice treaty at five in the morning,
in a dining car in the forest of Compiegne. Fighting ceases six hours later.
To celebrate peace Ida Gale is born 1 year later on November 23, 1919. The
Dean Howard family consists of Gladys age 16, Ross age 12, Irene age 10,
Jo age 4, and Gale just a baby. Dean was 43 and Ida was 37.
In 1920 they are living at Lake Wichita again and grandpa’s occupation is
listed as oil operator. 1921 finds the Dean Howard family living in Hollister,
OK. At this time Dean would be 45 years old and have 5 living children,
Gladys 28, Ross 14, Irene 12, Jo 6, and Gale 2. Dean is writing some letters
to the Masonic Lodge in Wichita Falls and his letters are on Wichita Mill &
Elevator Co. stationery, so I am guessing that is where he is working..
First letter 1921 In Holster, Okla. Letter dated 1-24-1921 on Wichita Mill &
Elevator Co stationery. It is a reply to a earlier letter the Masonic lodge
had sent him.(Spelled words as he had them)
Received your very interesting letter of Jan. 4, 1921. Relative to my
summons to appear at the commerication (can’t read word) of Wichita Falls
Masonic Lodge No. 635 AFAM to be held at its hall on Jan 25. Am sorry
indeed that business will cause me not to be present on that date. I kept
waiting thinking perhaps I could arrange to be there. But at the last minuit I find
I cannot be there-wishing you and this noble order well. I beg to remain.
Yours truly, Dean Howard
In reply to a letter the Masonic Lodge had written him about his dues. Letter
dated 3-21-1921 on Wichita Mill & Elevator Co Stationery. Still in Hollister , Ok
Mr. W. J. Webb
Dear Sir & Bro. Received your letter and Statement notifying me of my dues to
Lodge No. 635 of which I see you are the Secretary - concerning same will say
I paid our dear Brother Mr Wal? 2 payments of 6.00 each I think - any how I will
be very glad you go to the books and see for sure whether my back dues amounts
to $30.00 ($30.00 in 1921 would be same as $298 in 2001)
I will begin on the next first and will try to liquadate the amount in three monthly
payments - the last two years I lived in Wichita Falls I had 3 burn outs _ I had all
of my affects burned - which gotten me very deep in debt and up to the present day
I am still struggling to get back on my feet - I ought to of taken care of these dues
a long while ago but the lodge has not crowded me in the matter Hence my
neglect - now see if you cant find some credits for me if not let me know at least the
result of your efforts and I will began on the first of April and try and pay this off in
3 payments. Wishing you and the noble order prosperity.
I am your Fraternally, Dean Howard
Some time after the letter dated March 21, 1921 the family moved to Albuquerque,
NM. Dean is writing them a letter back on the back of the letter they sent him dated
June 9, 1923. I guess Dean got his dues paid off because this letter is about them
not receiving a response from a previous letter concerning the needs of the Masonic
Home and School. The Masons of Texas are raising funds to build additional space
for the orphans of Texas. When I was in high school in the 1940s, the coyotes played
the Masonic School in football. Wonder if this is the same one?
The letter Dean writes back is dated July 1, 1923, he would have been 47 years
old and had 4 kids with him.
Albuquerque New Mex
July 1 - 1923
Mr. Webb
Dear Sir and Brother
This letter just came to my hand. quit a delay in reaching me.
I am at 316 N. Broadway Albuquerque NM. Have been in this state almost 2 years.
Wish I was back in “Old Wichita Falls Tex” I am certainly stranded at this "burg"
I am signing the enclosed card for $10.00 payable Sept 10th. Give my inquiring friends
my kindest regards, please excuse this manner of writing to you as I had no other paper
at hand.
With best wishes I am yours fraternally,
W. D. Howard
Dean states that he has been her almost 2 years and his last letter was 3-21-1921.
The family must have moved just a few months after the 3-21-1921 letter.
On June 13, 1924 Dean is replying to a letter that was mailed to him on May 27, 1924
The previous letter must have been about paying his Masonic dues.
Albuquerque New Mex
June 13 - 1924 (he always uses a - instead of a comma,)
Mr. W. g. Webb (I am writing just as it is in the letter)
Dear Brothers -
Your very important communication of May 27th duly received. It found me
40 miles from Albuquerque - on a farm trying to raise Pinto Beans. I had
out 60 acres and up a pretty stand - and a frost and freeze on the night of
June1 killed them all. I have just finished replanting - it took every dollar I
could borrow to get beans replant - hence I havent a cent I could possibly
send the Lodge by the 24th of this month. I wont have any money before
Fall if I make a crop I will come out of the hole -this is my third attempt to
try to raise a crop in this God forsaken county. Havent raised a seed of
nothing yet. If the Lodge sees fit to suspend me they will have to do it
for I cant help my self. I do certainly hate to ask to be carried any further
but I havent cleared a Dollar in several years.
But do hope the tide is about ready to turn - thanking you and the
Lodge for ?tiring patience, I am
Fraternally yours
W. D. Howard
In May of 1927, Charles Lindbergh single-handedly flew non-stop across the
Atlantic Ocean and landed in France.
In 1928 they moved back to Wichita Falls, TX city directory shows address as
2514 Forest, this street later changed to Lebanon. My other grandfather John
McCurley lived at 2511 Forest. I wonder if this is how my father, Ross Howard,
met my mother, Geneva McCurley. My dad would have been 22 and my mother
would have been 15. They were married one year later in 1930.
In February, 1929, Chicago law enforcement officers went after the "mob" after
the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre in which seven "hoods" were slaughtered.
Ninety-eight persons were killed in the Cleveland Clinic disaster and, finally
in October of 1929, Wall Street collapsed, causing the financial ruin of many
and introducing the national calamity that came to be known as
the Great Depression of the Thirties.
The following years were very hard for the Howard family and all other
families. It was the begining of the Great Depression. From 1928 until 1934
Grandpa Howard and my Dad Ross are working as concrete contractors and
trying to run a filling station, named "Uncle Deans’s Filling Station."
The Dean Howard family lived at 2514 Lebanon 1928-31 and grandpa earned
his living as a concrete contractor. In 1929 my father Ross Howard was living
with him and working for him in the concrete business. Dean also had a brother
William J Howard who was a cement contractor.
Uncle Dean’s Filling station was open 1932-33 and their address was 2708
Ave. J. I remember Ross Howard talk about working in the filling station and
they had some type of contraption on the telephone pole where they could get
electricity and not pay for it and he would have to climb a ladder up the pole to
make it work. This was during the depression. Dean was out of work during part
of 1934 and the family moved to 2915 Baltimore. 1935 finds him working for
the City Park Department and living at 2802 Pennsylvania.
Dean has his old job back as sexton at Riverside Cemetery in 1936 and they
are living across the street form the cemetery at 1809 5th. He worked and lived
there thru 1940. I (Bobby Howard) was born in 1932 and Grandpa working at
Riverside and living across the street is where I start remembering.
#############probably later. Need to ck city directory for after 1940####
During World War ll, my dad Ross lived in Lordsburg, NM. During Christmas
of 1942, Dean, my grandpa took me with him to visit my dad in Lordsburg. We
rode the bus but the bus was so crowded we had to stand up all the way to
El Paso, TX. (642 Miles .\
Grandpa got tired, he had been painting his house and stepped on a nail just
before we left and his foot was hurting him so he got some other men to help
him get in the luggage rack above the seats, he just barely fit, but he could
lay down. I could see the bus driver looking in the rear view mirror but he
never said anything............
When we got to El Paso, TX, we couldn't get a bus to Lordsburg so we went
to the train station and they wouldn't let anyone except service people
(Army, Navy, etc World War II was in full swing) on the train so my granddad
said he was a rancher and had to get to Lordsburg so he could ship some
cattle to the Army and they let us on. (I told you he was a big story teller)
On May 27, 1946, at the age of 70 the Masonic Lodge reinstated him.
Dean Howard’s family liked to play card games and dominoes, especially
forty two. Each Sunday everyone would gather at his house and there would
be two or three tables of kinfolk’s playing 42. My dad and mother were
divorced and my dad lived in Lordsburg, NM, but Uncle Wesley and Auntie
would take me with them over there.. Uncle Wesley and Auntie were very very
good to me. If it had not been for them taking me places, I wouldn't have
been able to do very many things when I was young
There would be Aunt Irene, Uncle Wesley and their son John, Aunt Jo, Uncle C. E. and
their children, Jack, David, Donna. My dad moved back to Wichita Falls in about 1948
and he and Ida would be there, also Aunt Gale and Ike and their children, Joy, Linda and
Ira. My Grandpa and Grandma Howard’s house was a nice friendly place to be, where
everyone was welcome. His daughter Gladys lived in Flagstaff, Arizona with two other
cousins, Dean and Dale.
I remember the day Grandpa died, January 31, 1951 at 9:30 a. m. at his home 1318
Eighteenth of a heart attack. He had worked his regular shift at Memorial Auditorium
where he was night custodian. I was working as a delivery boy for Buchanan Stationery
and was driving by his house, when I saw everyone’s cars. I thought something had
happened to my grandma because she had a history of heart trouble, but when I
went in, it was my grandpa. Dean Howard was the type of person that everyone
enjoyed being around and I can still see him and hear his voice telling those wild stories.
Grandpa and Grandma never had a lot of money, but they were rich in friends and
love from all their children and grandchildren. His grandsons carried him to his final
resting place. Grandpa was buried in Riverside Cemetery where his daughter Joy
was waiting for him. Grandma Howard joined them on May 22,1953
I have even tried to tell my Grandchildren some wild stories at different times, I thought
maybe it was in the genes, but I can’t hold a light to Grandpa Howard, a true
