Doris Earl (Brown) Howard, sixth child and youngest daughter of 
Joseph V. and Nancy (Bullard) Brown was born on April 10, 1915 in her 
family's home in the city of Hamilton, Texas. She started school at 
Bloodworth, but her family moved to Aleman, then Ellis County, Johnson 
County, and finally Tarrant County about 1923. Doris attended elementary
schools in Lillian and Mansfield, then William James Jr. High School, 
and Polytechnic High School. She graduated from Ft. Worth's Central 
High School in the Spring of 1934, and began working for Ft. Worth 
Poultry and Egg where an explosion and subsequent leaking of ammonia 
effected serious damage to her lungs. Soon thereafter, she contracted 
Tuberculosis, which Doctors attributed to this disaster. At that time, 
the only treatment for the disease was complete bedrest, so she was 
isolated to the Texas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Carlsbad, 
(Tom Greene County)Texas for about a year, after which she transitioned
to Elmwood Sanatorium in Ft. Worth. During this time, she honed her 
art and drawing talent. A petite woman of strong resolve, Doris had 
dark hair, fair complexion, and blue eyes. She was an active member of 
Berry Street Baptist Church. On December 20, 1942, she married Leroy 
Howard at the home of her parents in Ft. Worth, Texas, and they settled
into his country-home outside Kennedale, Texas, where she continued her 
paintings. No children were born from this union. After several months,
they moved with his job to Corpus Christi, Texas. At age 29, Doris died
on September 19, 1945 in Refugio, Texas from reaction to an Adrenalin 
injection for an Asthma attack while en route to Ft. Worth from their 
Corpus Christi home. She is buried in the Brown Family plot at Laurel
Land Cemetery in Ft. Worth.





Source: Nephew Gerry Gieger, Everman, Texas - Summer 1998 and posted 13 August 1998