Beaufort-Buncombe County NcArchives Obituaries.....Howell, Ralph W. 1938
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 02-11-1938, P. 5
RALPH W. HOWELL

   Ralph W. Howell, 44, president of the General Building Products Company of 
Asheville, N.C., which he established ten years ago, died suddenly at his home 
in suburban Biltmore Forest, Asheville, Monday, February 24, of a heart attack. 
His death was a shock to family and friends, as he was apparently in the best of 
health. He was stricken while reading a newspaper shortly after participating in 
games in the recreation room of his new home, which he and his family had 
occupied for the first time shortly before Christmas. 

   Mr. Howell was born at Pantago, N.C., in Eastern North Carolina March 6, 
1893, but lived the years of his boyhood in Courtland, this county, his father 
being the late George W. Howell, the senior member of Howell & Wynn, a well-
known firm in the County Seat for many years. The family moved to Belhaven, 
N.C., upon the father’s death in 1905.

   He was educated at N.C. State College and was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha 
fraternity.

   He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucy Grindstaff Howell; a daughter, Miss 
Ann Howell, a student at Hollins College, Virginia; two sisters, Mrs. C.L. 
Dowell of Baltimore and Mrs. Henry Harvey of Belhaven; a sister-in-law, Mrs. 
Claude F. Howell; a nephew, Claude F. Howell, Jr., both of Wilmington, N.C.; an 
uncle, A.M. Howell of Franklin, and a number of cousins in Norfolk, Suffolk and 
in this county.

   Funeral services were conducted from his home Wednesday afternoon at 3 
o’clock with interment in Riverside Cemetery with the Rev. W.C. Crooner, rector 
of All Soul’s Episcopal Church, officiating.


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