Love Co., OK. - Obit for Evelyn Howard

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                        Obit for Evelyn Howard

Graveside services for Evelyn Howard of Leon were Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in the
Haineline Cemetery, Woodville. Officiating was Rev. Dwight Hawkins.

Born May 31, 1928, at Washington, Mrs. Howard died August 15, 1999, in
Presbyterian Hospital, Oklahoma City. She was the daughter of William and Iona
Cobb Lee.

A resident of Leon since 1972, she married W.L. Howard on October 12, 1943, at
Madill. Mrs. Howard was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. She enjoyed
fishing.

Survivors include four sons, Henry Howard of Idabel, Eugene Howard of Marietta,
Monroe Howard of Addington and Charles Howard of Leon; four daughters, Nadine
Williams, Bertie Cummins and Martha Rhodes of Leon, and Louise Cummins of
Marietta; two brothers, Harold Lee of Antlers and John Henry Lee of Colbert; 26
grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Howard was preceded in death by her husband on August 23, 1980; a son,
Thurman Howard on May 20, 1994; two brothers, Richard Lee and Willie Joe Lee; a
sister Florence Howard in 1991; three grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.

Services were directed by Kennedy Funeral Home with grandsons and nephews
assisting as honorary pallbearers.

Reprinted from the Marietta Monitor, Love County, August 20, 1999.