Howington Family

Arthur Fletcher Howington, Jr., B.A., B.Div., M.Div., was born August 21, 1915, in Eclectic, Alabama, the second child of Methodist circuit minister A.F. Howington and his wife Cora Kelly. He had one older sister, Maybeth, and two younger siblings, Nelle and Hartwell (Riley). He graduated from Elmore County High School in 1934. He received a B.A. from Birmingham-Southern College in 1939. He earned a Bachelor of Divinity and a Master of Divinity degree in 1972 from the Candler School of Theology of Emory University.

Fletcher Howington began his ministry with the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1936 as a student pastor at Birmingham-Southern College. Howington took over his father's preaching circuit in Beatrice, Alabama, upon his death in 1938. He also served in Titus, Alabama, and Dallas, Georgia, during this time.

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