Beckam Co OK - Obit for Virgie Lou Williams Howard

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HOWARD Virgie Lou Williams
 Funeral services for Virgie Lou Howard will be held at 2 p.m.,
Wednesday, at Sayre First Baptist Church, officiated by Tom Cooksey.
  Burial will be at Sayre-Doxey Cemetery, Sayre, Beckham County, Oklahoma
under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service.
 Virgie Lou Howard was born July 31, 1913 in Collin County, Texas to
Nellie and Jim Williams and died Sunday, Feburary 18, 2002 in the Sayre
Memorial Hospital of Sayre, at the age of 88.
 Virgie moved with her parents to Sayre in 1916.  She was married to
Thurman Howard at Sayre on February 18, 1933.  They moved south of Sayre
until 1961 when they moved to Duncan.  In 1976 they moved back to Sayre
to make their home.   Virgie and Thurman had worked as the custodians for
the Presbyterian Church.
  She was a member of the Sayre First Baptist Church.
  She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and one brother,
Hollis Williams.
 Survivors include one daughter, Janetta June Maxwell of Marion, North
Carolina; two sisters, Grace Dungan of Sayre, Jacqueline Lewis of Blair;
one brother, Jack Williams of Duncan; five grandchildren; 13 great
grandchildren and one great great grandson.
  The Elk City Daily News, Elk City, OK 19-Feb-2002