Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Jimmy A. "Bucky" Howard
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 4/24/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cherokee/cherokee.html
Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK 
SEPTEMBER 14, 2001

JIMMY A "BUCKY" HOWARD

     Tahlequah--Graveside services for Jimmy A. "Bucky" Howard, 73, of 
Tahlequah, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Holland Cemetery with 
Rev. Bill Parker officiating.  Visitation will be 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, at the 
Reed-Culver Funeral Home and the casket will remain closed for the graveside 
services.  Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Reed-Culver Funeral 
Home.
     Jimmy was born Sept. 10, 1928, in Tahlequah to James Henry and Margie 
Rebecca (Craft) Howard and he passed from this life on Thursday, Sept. 13, in 
Tulsa.
     Bucky was reared in Cherokee County and later met and married Billye June 
Corn on May 3, 1948, in Van Buren, Ark.
     He had worked for Brockway Glass in 1948-'49.  He was sections foreman for 
Midland Alley Railroad and the Santa Fe Railroad.  He served in the U.S. Navy 
during WWII with the Pacific fleet.  They moved to California in 1952 and he 
retired in 1989.
     Jimmy was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Peggy Jane Purkey 
and Jeanette Byrd; and his twin brother, Johnny Arthur Howard.
     He is survived by his wife of 53 years; two daughters and their husbands, 
Sheryle Leigh and Richard Garner of Tahlequah, and Jimmye and Dan Murphy of  
Tulsa; one son, Jimmy G. and wife Robbie Howard of Needles, Calif.; one brother, 
Jack O. Howard of Goffs, Calif.; one sister, Wilma June Nance of Stilwell; two 
uncles, Fred Howard and Evert Howard; one aunt, Very Howard; five grandchildren, 
eight great-grandchildren, along with numerous cousins and friends.