Alice, Texas
Howard Lee Cave
1940 — 2024
Howard Lee Cave was born on May 30, 1940, at Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, to James Howard Cave and Clara Collins Cave. His life ended on February 26th 2024 at Spohn Hospital in Alice, Texas, after struggling with a series of serious illnesses. He packed a lot of living in the time and space between these two dates. I have been fortunate enough to share the second half of it. I remembered Butch Cave as a jokester at Baker Jr. High and W.B.Ray High School and was amazed to discover in 1973 that Howard Cave, Ph.D. would be coming to teach Sociology at the newly opened Texas A&I University in Corpus Christi, Texas. Howard and Mary Bernice Teasley married in 1960 and had two...