July 13, 2015
Jewel Franklin Rowe, aged 102, died July 13, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. She was the younger daughter of Wiley Edward and Celia Rhode Franklin and was born in 1912 in Wilson County, Texas. Her father was a rancher, a banker, and for a time, county treasurer, while her mother had been a teacher. Her mother died when she was four. When her father remarried in 1919, she said she gained two additional mothers, her stepmother, Myrtle Hurley Franklin, and "Miss Myrtle's" maiden aunt, Lucy A. Neal, or "Tootie", who also lived with the family.
She graduated from Floresville High School in 1929 as valedictorian, and received both a Bachelor of Expression in 1932 and a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1933 from Mary Hardin-Baylor College. For seven years she taught English and speech at Brackenridge High School. At her rooming house she met her future husband, Alfred Richard Rowe, Jr., who was working at Negley and Company. Alfred said that he found that "she was related to half of South Texas, and that the other half loved her". She finished her master's degree at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, and they were married on September 2, 1939. They had celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary at the time of his death.
After they began their family, she stayed home with the children but also participated in many organizations. She was a life member and president of the San Antonio Speech Arts Association. She did book and play reviews for them and other groups. She was president of the North East ISD Council of PTAs, the Blue Bird Auxiliary to the Methodist Hospital (a group in which she volunteered at least one afternoon a week for over 35 years), the Wesley House Board, the Auxiliary to the San Antonio chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, and the Women's Society of her church. She joined her husband in membership at Alamo Heights United Methodist Church, where they were members of the Kum Doublers Sunday School class. Into her mid 80's, she was in charge of the Loving Hands Ministry at Alamo Heights. After Alfred injured his back in 1989, the two of them joined the Concord Health Club, where they exercised most weekdays until he died in 2000 and where she continued until 2002, when she discontinued driving. In her later years, she enjoyed membership in the Ol' Shavano chapter of the DAR, in the AU chapter of PEO, and in honorary membership in Zeta Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. She also attended meetings of the Brackenridge High Mid-Thirties Alumni Association, where she enjoyed seeing students she had taught. When she lived in Castle Hills, she was a member of the Castle Hills Women's Club.
The real center of her life, though, was her family-especially her husband, her children and their families-and her church. Her husband, parents, stepmother, elder sister, Lasca Franklin Neal, younger daughter, Nancy Rowe Cox, and daughter-in-law, Dianna Rowe, preceded her in death. She is survived by two children and two sons-in-law, Judy Rowe Koehl and Michael F. Koehl, Alfred Richard Rowe, III, and James E. Cox, her nine grandchildren and their spouses, Richard Koehl and Andrea Sankari, Edward Koehl and Laura Koehl, Andrew Koehl and Beatrice Lok, William F. Koehl, Matthew Rowe and Karissa Reckinger-Rowe, Amy Elizabeth Rowe, Seth F. Cox and Stephanie Cox, Sarah Caitlin Cox and fiancé, Mason Reaves, and Meghan Cox Jones and Drew Jones, thirteen great grandchildren, her niece and nephew, Mary Ellen Darby and Dan A. Neal, and a great number of other relatives and friends, including her "Swedish daughter", Kerstin Bergh Johannesson.
The family thanks all her caregivers at The Forum at Lincoln Heights.
A celebration of her life will be held on Monday, July 20th at 2 pm in the Garden Chapel of Alamo Heights United Methodist Church.
The burial, which will be private, will be at Floresville City Cemetery, next to her husband and near three earlier generations of her family.
Jewel Franklin Rowe, aged 102, died July 13, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. She was the younger daughter of Wiley Edward and Celia Rhode Franklin and was born in 1912 in Wilson County, Texas. Her father was a rancher, a banker, and for a time, county treasurer, while her mother had been a teacher. Her mother died when she was four. When her father remarried in 1919, she said she gained two additional mothers, her stepmother, Myrtle Hurley Franklin, and "Miss Myrtle's" maiden aunt, Lucy A. Neal, or "Tootie", who also lived with the family.
She graduated from Floresville High School in 1929 as valedictorian, and received both a Bachelor of Expression in 1932 and a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1933 from Mary Hardin-Baylor College. For seven years she taught English and speech at Brackenridge High School. At her rooming house she met her future husband, Alfred Richard Rowe, Jr., who was working at Negley and Company. Alfred said that he found that "she was related to half of South Texas, and that the other half loved her". She finished her master's degree at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, and they were married on September 2, 1939. They had celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary at the time of his death.
After they began their family, she stayed home with the children but also participated in many organizations. She was a life member and president of the San Antonio Speech Arts Association. She did book and play reviews for them and other groups. She was president of the North East ISD Council of PTAs, the Blue Bird Auxiliary to the Methodist Hospital (a group in which she volunteered at least one afternoon a week for over 35 years), the Wesley House Board, the Auxiliary to the San Antonio chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, and the Women's Society of her church. She joined her husband in membership at Alamo Heights United Methodist Church, where they were members of the Kum Doublers Sunday School class. Into her mid 80's, she was in charge of the Loving Hands Ministry at Alamo Heights. After Alfred injured his back in 1989, the two of them joined the Concord Health Club, where they exercised most weekdays until he died in 2000 and where she continued until 2002, when she discontinued driving. In her later years, she enjoyed membership in the Ol' Shavano chapter of the DAR, in the AU chapter of PEO, and in honorary membership in Zeta Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. She also attended meetings of the Brackenridge High Mid-Thirties Alumni Association, where she enjoyed seeing students she had taught. When she lived in Castle Hills, she was a member of the Castle Hills Women's Club.
The real center of her life, though, was her family-especially her husband, her children and their families-and her church. Her husband, parents, stepmother, elder sister, Lasca Franklin Neal, younger daughter, Nancy Rowe Cox, and daughter-in-law, Dianna Rowe, preceded her in death. She is survived by two children and two sons-in-law, Judy Rowe Koehl and Michael F. Koehl, Alfred Richard Rowe, III, and James E. Cox, her nine grandchildren and their spouses, Richard Koehl and Andrea Sankari, Edward Koehl and Laura Koehl, Andrew Koehl and Beatrice Lok, William F. Koehl, Matthew Rowe and Karissa Reckinger-Rowe, Amy Elizabeth Rowe, Seth F. Cox and Stephanie Cox, Sarah Caitlin Cox and fiancé, Mason Reaves, and Meghan Cox Jones and Drew Jones, thirteen great grandchildren, her niece and nephew, Mary Ellen Darby and Dan A. Neal, and a great number of other relatives and friends, including her "Swedish daughter", Kerstin Bergh Johannesson.
The family thanks all her caregivers at The Forum at Lincoln Heights.
A celebration of her life will be held on Monday, July 20th at 2 pm in the Garden Chapel of Alamo Heights United Methodist Church.
The burial, which will be private, will be at Floresville City Cemetery, next to her husband and near three earlier generations of her family.
July 13, 2015
Jewel Franklin Rowe, aged 102, died July 13, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. She was the younger daughter of Wiley Edward and Celia Rhode Franklin and was born in 1912 in Wilson County, Texas. Her father was a rancher, a banker, and for a time, county treasurer, while her mother had been a teacher. Her mother died when she was four. When her father remarried in 1919, she said she gained two additional mothers, her stepmother, Myrtle Hurley Franklin, and "Miss Myrtle's" maiden aunt, Lucy A. Neal, or "Tootie", who also lived with the family.
She graduated from Floresville High School in 1929 as valedictorian, and received both a Bachelor of Expression in 1932 and a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1933 from Mary Hardin-Baylor College. For seven years she taught English and speech at Brackenridge High School. At her rooming house she met her future husband, Alfred Richard Rowe, Jr., who was working at Negley and Company. Alfred said that he found that "she was related to half of South Texas, and that the other half loved her". She finished her master's degree at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, and they were married on September 2, 1939. They had celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary at the time of his death.
After they began their family, she stayed home with the children but also participated in many organizations. She was a life member and president of the San Antonio Speech Arts Association. She did book and play reviews for them and other groups. She was president of the North East ISD Council of PTAs, the Blue Bird Auxiliary to the Methodist Hospital (a group in which she volunteered at least one afternoon a week for over 35 years), the Wesley House Board, the Auxiliary to the San Antonio chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, and the Women's Society of her church. She joined her husband in membership at Alamo Heights United Methodist Church, where they were members of the Kum Doublers Sunday School class. Into her mid 80's, she was in charge of the Loving Hands Ministry at Alamo Heights. After Alfred injured his back in 1989, the two of them joined the Concord Health Club, where they exercised most weekdays until he died in 2000 and where she continued until 2002, when she discontinued driving. In her later years, she enjoyed membership in the Ol' Shavano chapter of the DAR, in the AU chapter of PEO, and in honorary membership in Zeta Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. She also attended meetings of the Brackenridge High Mid-Thirties Alumni Association, where she enjoyed seeing students she had taught. When she lived in Castle Hills, she was a member of the Castle Hills Women's Club.
The real center of her life, though, was her family-especially her husband, her children and their families-and her church. Her husband, parents, stepmother, elder sister, Lasca Franklin Neal, younger daughter, Nancy Rowe Cox, and daughter-in-law, Dianna Rowe, preceded her in death. She is survived by two children and two sons-in-law, Judy Rowe Koehl and Michael F. Koehl, Alfred Richard Rowe, III, and James E. Cox, her nine grandchildren and their spouses, Richard Koehl and Andrea Sankari, Edward Koehl and Laura Koehl, Andrew Koehl and Beatrice Lok, William F. Koehl, Matthew Rowe and Karissa Reckinger-Rowe, Amy Elizabeth Rowe, Seth F. Cox and Stephanie Cox, Sarah Caitlin Cox and fiancé, Mason Reaves, and Meghan Cox Jones and Drew Jones, thirteen great grandchildren, her niece and nephew, Mary Ellen Darby and Dan A. Neal, and a great number of other relatives and friends, including her "Swedish daughter", Kerstin Bergh Johannesson.
The family thanks all her caregivers at The Forum at Lincoln Heights.
A celebration of her life will be held on Monday, July 20th at 2 pm in the Garden Chapel of Alamo Heights United Methodist Church.
The burial, which will be private, will be at Floresville City Cemetery, next to her husband and near three earlier generations of her family.
Jewel Franklin Rowe, aged 102, died July 13, 2015 in San Antonio, Texas. She was the younger daughter of Wiley Edward and Celia Rhode Franklin and was born in 1912 in Wilson County, Texas. Her father was a rancher, a banker, and for a time, county treasurer, while her mother had been a teacher. Her mother died when she was four. When her father remarried in 1919, she said she gained two additional mothers, her stepmother, Myrtle Hurley Franklin, and "Miss Myrtle's" maiden aunt, Lucy A. Neal, or "Tootie", who also lived with the family.
She graduated from Floresville High School in 1929 as valedictorian, and received both a Bachelor of Expression in 1932 and a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1933 from Mary Hardin-Baylor College. For seven years she taught English and speech at Brackenridge High School. At her rooming house she met her future husband, Alfred Richard Rowe, Jr., who was working at Negley and Company. Alfred said that he found that "she was related to half of South Texas, and that the other half loved her". She finished her master's degree at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, and they were married on September 2, 1939. They had celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary at the time of his death.
After they began their family, she stayed home with the children but also participated in many organizations. She was a life member and president of the San Antonio Speech Arts Association. She did book and play reviews for them and other groups. She was president of the North East ISD Council of PTAs, the Blue Bird Auxiliary to the Methodist Hospital (a group in which she volunteered at least one afternoon a week for over 35 years), the Wesley House Board, the Auxiliary to the San Antonio chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, and the Women's Society of her church. She joined her husband in membership at Alamo Heights United Methodist Church, where they were members of the Kum Doublers Sunday School class. Into her mid 80's, she was in charge of the Loving Hands Ministry at Alamo Heights. After Alfred injured his back in 1989, the two of them joined the Concord Health Club, where they exercised most weekdays until he died in 2000 and where she continued until 2002, when she discontinued driving. In her later years, she enjoyed membership in the Ol' Shavano chapter of the DAR, in the AU chapter of PEO, and in honorary membership in Zeta Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. She also attended meetings of the Brackenridge High Mid-Thirties Alumni Association, where she enjoyed seeing students she had taught. When she lived in Castle Hills, she was a member of the Castle Hills Women's Club.
The real center of her life, though, was her family-especially her husband, her children and their families-and her church. Her husband, parents, stepmother, elder sister, Lasca Franklin Neal, younger daughter, Nancy Rowe Cox, and daughter-in-law, Dianna Rowe, preceded her in death. She is survived by two children and two sons-in-law, Judy Rowe Koehl and Michael F. Koehl, Alfred Richard Rowe, III, and James E. Cox, her nine grandchildren and their spouses, Richard Koehl and Andrea Sankari, Edward Koehl and Laura Koehl, Andrew Koehl and Beatrice Lok, William F. Koehl, Matthew Rowe and Karissa Reckinger-Rowe, Amy Elizabeth Rowe, Seth F. Cox and Stephanie Cox, Sarah Caitlin Cox and fiancé, Mason Reaves, and Meghan Cox Jones and Drew Jones, thirteen great grandchildren, her niece and nephew, Mary Ellen Darby and Dan A. Neal, and a great number of other relatives and friends, including her "Swedish daughter", Kerstin Bergh Johannesson.
The family thanks all her caregivers at The Forum at Lincoln Heights.
A celebration of her life will be held on Monday, July 20th at 2 pm in the Garden Chapel of Alamo Heights United Methodist Church.
The burial, which will be private, will be at Floresville City Cemetery, next to her husband and near three earlier generations of her family.
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