"She lead by example and we owe her so much," Ron Howard wrote of his late mother Jean's impact on his family Ron Howard is ...

"A fav pic of our late mother, actress Jean Speegle Howard. She would have been 98 today and I love this photo because it says so much about her can-do spirit and total support of her loved ones ...

Ron Howard is honoring his mother, Jean Speegle Howard, on what would have been her 98th birthday. On Saturday, Feb. 1, Ron, 70, shared an undated throwback photo to Instagram that showed Jean ...