Will H. Towles. Will H. Towles, 82, Won Awards for Portrait Photography. Will H. Towles, 82, who had won 65 awards here and abroad for portrait photography, died Sunday at Garfield Hospital. He lived at 4720 South Chelsea lane, Bethesda, Maryland. Mr. Towles had taken pictures of Presidents Taft and Theodore Roosevelt and Supreme Court justices before he retired in 1929. He became interested in photography after working in his brother's studio in his native Frostburg, Maryland. He had his own studio in Cumberland, Maryland, before he came to Washington in 1903 and bought the old Mathew B. Brady studio at 1107 F street N.W. Many of his subjects sat in the big oak chair that Abraham Lincoln gave to Mr. Brady for "long-legged men." The chair was the one Lincoln used when he was in the House of Representatives and it is now in Mr. Towles home, according to members of the family. Organizer of School. Mr. Towles organized and was director of the National School of Photography in Winona Lake, Indiana, for 15 years. He was the author of "Balance of Light" and "Towles' Portrait Lightings." He held a degree at master of photography given to him by the Photographers' Association of America. He helped organize the association and was president in 1914. Last year he received the national George Harris Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to photography. He was a member of the Photogarphers' Association of the Middle Atlantic and the Kiwanis. Retired in 1929. His studio was at 1526 Connecticut avenue N.W. when he retired in 1929. Survivors are his widow, Bertha Evans Towles; a daughter, Mrs. William H. Patilson, Sr., 4623 South Chelsea lane, Bethesda; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Robert Pumphrey's funeral home, 7557 Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda, Maryland. Burial will be private.

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