Vincent Rowe

11/10/1919 Jacksonville, Illinois

Only child of Paul Samuell (Supreme Court Judge of the State of Illinois) and Millicent Mathers Samuell.

Attended Jacksonville High School then William & Mary College. His Father passed away in his first year at school, he finished his education at Jacksonville College. He was interested in radio and became a broadcaster for a series of local stations ending up in Detroit, MI. His boss thought his name was to “stogy” and that “Vince Rowe” would be ”snappier”, thus Vince Rowe was created!

He met his bride; Harriette Jane Gifford, a second-grade schoolteacher while living in Detroit. They were married in Jacksonville, IL, he soon after left for a career in the new media of television in New York City. He joined the Ted Bates Agency and sold his new client on a television variety hour concept thus creating the first TV variety hour: “The Betty Crocker Star Matinee.”

He also produced and hosted a syndicated radio show “The Golden Age of Popular Music”. In the early 1960’s, the family moved to Los Angeles where he went to work in marketing for ABC Radio West.

Vince’s real loves were everything about the Big Bands and his 1937 Ford Club Coupe Convertible. If he could have parked it in the living room, he’d have been a happy guy.

He is survived by their Daughter: Susan Gralnick Hoster and their two Grandaughters: Julia Tinsley Balogh and Alexandra Tinsley Paula.