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Submitted: 10/6/23 • Approved: 10/6/23 • Last Updated: 10/9/23 • R585397-G585397-S3
Homer Howard, Jr.
1924-1968
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Maxine Mims Howard
1923-2004
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*Photo/information, courtesy M. Bishop
*Obituary Homer Howard, Jr.
Published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Friday, March 8, 1968.
Homer Howard,
Martin County
Homer Howard, Jr., 43, Tarzan community resident and a member of the Martin County School Board, died at 11:45 a.m. Thursday in a Lamesa hospital after a short illness.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Nalley-Pickle Rosewood Chapel, with Bill Gipson, West Highway 90 Church of Christ, officiating, assisted by Thomas McIntyre, Tarzan Church of Christ. Burial will be in Trinity Memorial Park.
He was born Oct. 22, 1924, in Jones County and came to Martin County in 1937. He farmed in the Tarzan community and was a member of the Grady Independent School District Board of Education for several years. He was also a member of the Martin County Equalization Board.
A veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Tarzan Church of Christ. Mr. Howard married Miss Maxine Mims, Nov. 7, 1942, in Big Spring.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Johnny Lynn Howard, Danny Mack Howard, Billy Jay Howard, Homer Don Howard, all of Tarzan; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Howard Sr., Big Spring; one sister, Mrs. L. V. Welch, Tarzan; and one granddaughter.
*Obituary Maxine Mims Howard
Maxine Howard, 81, of Stanton, died on Saturday, December 25, 2004, in a Midland hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch
Rosewood Chapel in Big Spring with Bill Welsh, minister of Belvue Church of Christ in Stanton officiating. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park in Big Spring.
The family will receive friends Monday, December 27, from 6 PM to 8 PM at her home in Stanton, 803 N. St. Francis.
She was born on October 12, 1923, in Jones County, Texas to Ernest and Carrie Mims.
The family moved to Martin County in 1929, where she attended Courtney School.
She married Homer Howard, Jr. on November 7, 1942 in Big Spring, Texas. He preceded her in death on March 7, 1968.
Maxine and her husband farmed in the Tarzan community.
She was a homemaker and did secretarial work for Guitar Gin of Stanton, the agricultural office and M&M Meter Service of Stanton.
She loved yard work, gardening, crocheting, and most of all baking for her family and the elderly.
She was a member of Belvue Church of Christ.
Survivors include four sons and three daughters-in-law, Butch and LaRee Howard of Tarzan, John L. Howard of Midland, Danny and Nancy Howard of Ackerly and Bill and Cynthia Howard of Midland; 5 grandsons, 4 granddaughters and 6 great grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.
The family suggests memorials to: Martin County Senior Citizens P.O. Box 1233, Stanton, Texas 79782 or to a favortie charity.
Arrangements under the direction of Gilbreath Funeral Home of Stanton. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com
https://npwelch.com/obituary/maxine-howard/
Contributed on 10/6/23 by neldapat
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