Barbara Howell found herself thrust into a man’s profession at age 55 when she was left with her husband’s thriving woodworking business after a family crisis. Raised to be tough, and a fighter by nature, Barbara stepped up to the challenge to become one of the few successful females in the woodworking business.
Overcoming a severe handicap of seventy-five percent hearing loss at a young age, Barbara’s entire life has been defined by adversity. She held careers as wife, mother, grandmother, farmer, cosmetologist, and carpenter b more...