Lamar County GaArchives Obituaries.....Howard, Grace Woodward September 28, 1956
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Barnesville News-Gazette, 4 October 1956
MRS. J. E. HOWARD DIES IN ATLANTA HOSPITAL FRIDAY
     Fueral [sic] services for Mrs. James Edward Howard were held Sunday 
afternoon, Sept. 30, at the First Methodist Church, of which she was a devoted 
member, with Dr. E. Nash Broyles, retired pastor, and the Rev. Dan Brewster, 
pastor, officiating.
     Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.
     Dr. Broyles paid beautiful tribute to a beautiful life.  He enumerated 
the many community activities in which Mrs. Howard has had part and told of 
her splendid contribution of time and effort.
     He described Mrs. Howard as a fine, Christian spirit, told of her 
devotion to her church, her family, her friends, and of the great loss 
suffered by Barnesville.
     Scripture reading and prayer was offered by Mr. Brewster.
     Members of the Willie Hunt Smith Chapter of the U. D. C., of which she 
was vice president and the W. S. C. S. sat in a body, as did the board of 
trustees of the Carnegie Library.
     Mrs. Howard died Friday morning in Emory University Hospital after an 
illness of several weeks.  During her illness she was accorded countless 
attentions by her family and friends, and everything that medical science 
could offer was done for her.
     Born in Barnesville, Grace Woodward Howard was the daughter of Stephen 
Woodward and Ora Blalock Woodward.  She was of distinguished and honored 
ancestry and nobly lived up to her heritage.
     Mrs. Howard was educated at Gordon (then Gordon Institute), and later 
attended college in Va.  She married soon after her return home from college 
and except for a few years of residence in Macon lived here all her life.  She 
loved Barnesville and proved her love by her outstanding contributions to 
community life.
     Treasurer of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Library, she also 
served as assistant librarian.  She had also served as librarian at Gordon 
Military College and as assistant there.  She was a leader in every 
organization to which she belonged.  The P. T. A., the Woman's Club, the 
former Three Arts Club, the U. D. C., the Woman's Society of Christian Service 
of the Methodist Church and its Circles all had felt the influence of her 
guiding hand.
     During World War II Mrs. Howard was chairman of the important Production 
ommittee [sic] of the Barnesville Chapter of the American Red Cross.  In this 
capacity she directed the sewing and knitting activities of hundreds of Lamar 
County women.  This was a stupendous task, but one to which she turned her 
talents with love for the men who were fighting for our country.
     Surviving Mrs. Howard are her daughter, Miss Ora Lee Howard, member of 
the faculty of Gordon Military College; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Walter 
Jackson, Spartanburg, S. C. and Mrs. Warren Woodward, Atlanta; a niece, Mrs. 
Ann Vandiver, Spartanburg, and two nephews, Stephen Woodward, Atlanta, and 
Will Hill Newton, Jr., Atlanta and Griffin.
     Serving as pallbearers were Lester Yarbrough, J. R. Cook, Fred Miller, 
Col. C. T. B. Harris, V. M. Graves, and Ralph Pharr.
     Honorary pallbearers were C. H. Eldridge, Walter B. Smith, Jr., Frank 
Sims, A. B. Matthews, Jack Bush, R. P. Cotter, B. T. Woodall, and Col. C. C. 
Chandler.
     Haisten Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Additional Comments:
Mrs. Howard died 28 September 1956 in DeKalb Co., GA at the age of 70, 
according to the Georgia Death Index.

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