Howell Will Long Be Remembered...
...ran the December 18, 1978 headline as the Alice Echo-News reported the passing of H. H. Howell.
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H. H. Howell 1896-1978
Howell's 1924 ocean voyage across the Atlantic and then with fellow passenger Fannie Lincoln between Liverpool, England and Rangoon, Burma via the Suez Canal changed his life. The shipboard romance with his future wife, a Middlebury College, Vermont graduate enroute to the Presbyterian Mission School in Burma, blossomed into a married life in a bamboo dwelling at the oil camp near Chauk, Burma in 1926.
Returning his new family to stock market-crashed 1929 America, Howell salvaged marginal oil wells in Smackover, Arkansas, started his own drilling business in 1931 and moved to South Texas to wildcat in 1936. During the War World II years, Howell drilled numerous strikes across Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio and Duval Counties, Texas and 19 wells in Wyoming's Big Piney field. Part 1 of our story closes in 1947 when Howell sold the 5 Alice-based rigs.