Ellis County Texas Archives Photo Person.....Beck, Elizabeth "Bessie" Lethella Howell (at Her Graduation From Baylor University) 1938 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: T. Bradford Willis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007638 September 30, 2012, 11:40 pm Source: Hester M. Beck Willis Name: Elizabeth "Bessie" Lethella Howell (at Her Graduation From Baylor University) Beck Date Of Photograph: 1938 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/photos/beck9980nph.jpg Image file size: 92.4 Kb Elizabeth "Bessie" Lethella Howell was born on October 25, 1891 in Hill County, TX, the daughter of Joshua Calhoun Howell and Adalade "Addie" Smith Howell of Upson County, GA and Hill County, TX. She was baptized on April 30, 1902 by the Rev. Edward R. Barcus at the Methodist Church in West, McLennan County, TX. She attended elementary school in Hillsboro and West, TX. She graduated from West High School in 1910, attended Sam Houston Normal (now Sam Houston State University) for her teaching certificate, and later graduated from Baylor University in 1938. She taught at Rogers Hill, Brownfield, West, Elm Mott, and North Waco Elementary School. Beginning in 1931, she taught at North Waco School for 31 years. On December 23, 1919, she married Roy Elmer Beck in West, TX. They were later members of the Herring Avenue Methodist Church in Waco, where he served as a steward and she taught the Dorcas Sunday School Class for many years. She died December 8, 1986 in Waco and was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Waco. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/photos/beck9980nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/txfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb