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Howe Post Office

The Howe Enterprise
August 6, 1964
pg. 1

POSTMASTER RETIRING
Mr. Andrew Truett Davenport, Howe Postmaster, has announced his retirement effective August 31st. He has reached the retirement age. He has been postmaster for the last 23 years and has had 15 years with the Post office Department. Mr. Davenport was born and reared in the Choctaw community 5 miles south of Sherman. He was educated in the Sherman public schools and attended Captain Le Tellier's Private School in Sherman. His parents were J.T. and Mary Catherine Hollingsworth Davenport.
Mr. Davenport is a Baptist and a Mason with an active membership in Howe Lodge 430 AF and AM. He is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite and is affiliated with the Hella Temple Shrine in Dallas, Texas.
Mr. Davenport was in the filling station and tourist court business from 1931 to 1952 before being appointed postmaster in 1952. He was priviledged to secure for the Howe community the present modern post office building.
After retirement he hopes to be able to fulfill his dreams for fishing and traveling.
Postmaster Davenport will be succeeded by Mr. James Davis who will serve as acting postmaster.
Mr. Davis is in the engineering department at the Bonham Veteran's Center. No decision has been reached as to whether he will continue with this work. He is a native of Van Alstyne, having lived in Howe since 1950.
In 1951 he began raising grain and cattle. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Davis of Elmont. Mrs. Davis is the former Charlisie Tolbert of Sherman, daughter of Mrs. Ethel Tolbert, now of Howe. They have 3 children, Ronnie, 7; Sherrie, 2; and Michael, 7 weeks old. He served overseas with the Navy in World War II.