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Press-Register, Mobile, Alabama, Tuesday, August 21, 2012: Howell, James "Jim" Edward Howell, 84, born in Chickasaw and a longtime resident of Mobile, passed away in the comfort of his home on Sunday, August 19, 2012. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Ann Tackett Howell; daughter, Nancy Howell Foley (Mark D.); step-daughter, Janet Daly Leffard; grandsons, Mark D. Foley, Jr., Andrew T. Foley and David R. Leffard, III; older brother, Francis Marion "Yank" Howell and numerous other cousins who descend from the Clarke County Howell family. He was preceded in death by his parents, Dennis Bryan Howell and Vaughn George Howell; brothers, Bryan "Sonny" Howell and Dennis A. Howell and sister Catherine Brandick. Jim graduated from Murphy High School where he was an outstanding baseball player who held batting records for decades. After graduation, he played for Southern League minor teams including the Crowley Millers. He was an army veteran who served his country during World War II and the Korean War. He retired in 1986 from Eastern Airlines. An American history buff and descendant of Revolutionary War patriots, Jim read incessantly about U.S. and World History and took his family on annual vacations across the country to national historic sites. Jim's other sports passion was golf. He spent many days on the greens of the Azalea City Golf Course where he is remembered for having made a hole-in-one on the same hole with the same fellow golfers two different times. A Mobile Press Register article "Deja Vue" recounted the event. Graveside services will be held on Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 10 AM. Interment will be in Mobile Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Spring Hill Ave. United Methodist Church.

Birth	5 Sep 1927	Chickasaw, Mobile Co., Alabama
Residence	1930	Whistler and Plateau, Mobile Co., Alabama
Residence	1 Apr 1940	Plateau, Mobile Co. Alabama
Residence	7 Feb 1946	Alabama
Marriage	4 Feb 1961	Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama - Dorothy Ann Tackett
Residence	1994	Mobile Co., Alabama
Death	19 Aug 2012	Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama
Burial		Mobile Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Tillmans Corner, Mobile Co., Alabama

Spouse	Dorothy Ann Tackett (1932 - 2012)
Child	Nancy Ann Howell (1962 - )

Father	Dennis Bryan Howell ( - )
Mother	Vaughn George ( - )