Howard J. Twilley

I met Howard when we were both students at the University of Tulsa. He was a super athlete and a great person.

Howard Twilley was a great football player, but also a very humble individual. I was a student at the University of Tulsa when Howard and Jerry Rhome were teammates. Howard was very popular with the student body. He was not a "prima dona" at all. His receiving talent filled Skelly Stadium every Saturday. There were no vacant seats. PERIOD! Sportscaster Howard Cosell interviewed Howard on national TV and raved about his receiving talent and Twilley interrupted Cosell, and said, "don't...

I grew up next door to Howard on Myrtle Lane. Loved him and his family.

I grew up next door to his parents and he played with us neighborhood kids and taught us how to play football. Both girls and boys alike. He was sweet and kind too us kids and we all loved him and his family. My mom and Bessie were friends and his uncle Jim lived near us also so I knew his cousins also.

What a beautiful tribute to a life well lived. I will never forget in 1972, when Howard mailed me one of his football photos autographed, "to my cousin, Mary Jo Twilley" so I could prove to my junior high football coach that we were related (I was a cheerleader in Ft Leavenworth). My father was Col. LeRoy Gayle Twilley and his father was Haddox LeRoy Twilley. He had once explained how we were related... I´m from the line of Twilley's from Alabama but apparently some of them moved to Texas or...