Luella Howard
Original Photo
The original photo used as reference for the mural was photographed by an unknown photographer circa 1930.
Emma Louella Hurd Howard was born July 31, 1864 in Mt. Pleasant, Maine. She was the daughter of Emma C. Wiggin and William Knowles Hurd and had a brother named Ray E. Hurd.
She came to Washington in 1890 and was an early day school teacher at Sauk, Hamilton and Mount Vernon. After she married Henry C. Howard in 1898, she moved to Anacortes and served as librarian for the Anacortes Public Library for 29 years.
E. Louella Hurd Howard passed away on January 9, 1948 and is interred at Grand View Cemetery in Anacortes, Washington.
