Daily News | Leonard E. Howell Jr., retired SEPTA foreman, community mentor, and Freemasons leader, has died at 74
Leonard E. Howell Jr., 74, formerly of Philadelphia, retired SEPTA foreman and quality control inspector, community mentor, and Freemasons leader, died Wednesday, March 15, of lung cancer at Lowcountry Community Hospice House in Summerville, S.C.worked as a foreman for more than two decades in SEPTA’s revenue collection department.
Beginning in 1971, Mr. Howell was an active and popular member of the Freemasons’ Herbert E. Millen Mason Lodge #151 in Philadelphia. He became the lodge’s worshipful master in 2008 and later served as patron for the Masons’ Eastern Star Organization and its Queen of Sheba Lodge #39. After a divorce, he met Waverly Brown at a dance, and they became partners in 2005 and moved to South Carolina in 2019. They continued to dance and travel, and he embraced his move from the city to the countryside. “If you knew him, you couldn’t help but love him,” Brown said.
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