"A fav pic of our late mother, actress Jean Speegle Howard. She would have been 98 ... she put her own career on hold to raise Ron and his younger brother, Clint, 65, with her husband, Rance.

Ron Howard is honoring his mother, Jean Speegle Howard, on what would have been her 98th ... A Los Angeles Times obituary noted that she put her own career on hold to raise Ron and his younger brother ...