Rose Howell came into this life on September 13, 1943. Rose was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to parents Otho and Elouise Bobbins who ensured she was baptized into the Catholic faith as an infant.
Rose was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the historical Greenwood district, best known for the 1921 race riot. Rose graduated from Booker T. Washington High of Tulsa, and married Jonathan Howell shortly thereafter on January 9th, 1965. As a military wife, Rose traveled the world with her husband and daughter Cynthia Pleshette.