Alton Hardy Howard (March 28, 1925 – October 29, 2006) was a businessman, author, and a gospel songwriter from West Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
Older brother Verna Elisha Howard was a Church of christ clergyman for more than four decades who founded the Texas-based International Gospel Hour.
[2] During World War II, Howard served in the Ninth Air Force and flew twelve missions over Germany as a gunner on a B26 bomber.
He also developed several subdivisions[2] He was one of the founders and a longtime elder (1963–2004) of the White's Ferry Road Church of Christ in West Monroe.
[4][5] Howard worked to establish "World Radio", an international ministry which broadcasts the gospel of Jesus Christ in native languages.