Obituary

Major A. T. Howell died Tuesday, Feb. 23. Interment was at the City Cemetery, Wednesday Feb. 24, with Masonic honors. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Bell.
Deceased was nearly 79 years of age.
In the passing of Major Howell, death has claimed on of Plainview?s pioneer citizens, and a public-spirited man who unselfishly served this town and country to its progress and betterment in many ways, and who was spared to see the community for which he had labored long blossom into the fruition of a new era of permanent prosperity and constant advancement.
Major Howell was a veteran of the civil war and a gentleman and a scholar of the old school. He was learned in the law and had served as county attorney for several terms, and was for a long time editor of The Hale County Herald.
Major Howell was singularly free from avarice and greed, and never appeared to consider the profits of a service as worthy of his attention, and his compensation was out of all prportion to the eminent services rendered to this community. His death has caused more than a mere passing regret, for he had won a warm and loving place in every heart, even among those who did not know him personally, and there is among our people a feeling of geneuine gried since he has passed away. In truth to a man such as was Major Howell ?There is no death! The stars go down / To rise upon some fairer shore, / And bright in heaven?s jeweled crown / They shine forever more.? (Hale County Herald, February 16, 1909)