September 9, 1918 – November 9, 2012 LILLIAN (REED) HOWARD ? WHITESBORO, TEXASIN GOD?S TIME, NOT OURS, LILLIAN WENT TO BE WITH HIM 2 MONTHS AFTER HER 94TH BIRTHDAY. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR LILLIAN EDITH REED HOWARD, WHITESBORO, TEXAS WILL BE HELD TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012, 10:00 A.M. AT MEADOR FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL WITH REV. BILLY REED AND DR. RUSTY WALLER OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW THE SERVICE AT MACOMB CEMETERY. FAMILY VISITATION WILL BE HELD MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 7:00 TO 8:00 P.M. AT THE FUNERAL HOME.
LILLIAN HOWARD PASSED AWAY ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH AT THE HOMESTEAD IN DENISON, TEXAS.
LILLIAN EDITH REED HOWARD WAS BORN TO THOMAS MICHAEL REED AND MARY SUSAN (JACKSON) REED ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1918 IN GUNTER, TEXAS, AND MARRIED WILLIE THOMAS HOWARD ON AUGUST 29, 1936 IN GAINESVILLE, TEXAS. LILLIAN ATTENDED THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GORDONVILLE, AND WAS THE OLDEST LIVING MEMBER OF NORTH HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH, WHITESBORO, TEXAS. SHE MOVED FROM HERE TO DALLAS IN 1949 AND WORKED AT SIMMONS MATRESS COMPANY, BETTER MONKEY GRIP, WHITES AUTO, AND HABER FABRICATING COMPANY. LILLIAN LOVED TO CAN VEGETABLES, COOK, SEW, GARDEN, RAISE CHICKENS, AND RAN OVER MANY MINNOW BUCKETS WHILE FISHING.
SURVIVORS ARE HER DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW, EDITH AND NOBLE MC ELREATH OF WHITESBORO; SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, CHARLES AND CHARMAYNE HOWARD OF AUSTIN, TEXAS; GRANDCHILDREN, JENNIFER BREAM, STACY HOWARD, ANGELA ARNOLD, CARY HOWARD, RICKY JOE HOWARD; GREAT GRANDCHILDREN LOGAN THOMAS BREAM, HALEY NICOLE HOWARD, JASON POCKRUS, JOSHUA POCKRUS, NATALIE ANN GUYNES; JEWEL ARNOLD, MAX HOWARD AND ALEX HOWARD; SISTER, MABLE BRISTER AND BROTHERS, BOBBY REED AND WILLIE JOE REED.
MRS. HOWARD WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER HUSBAND, WILLIE THOMAS HOWARD; HER PARENTS, THOMAS AND MARY REED; SON, ROBERT DALE HOWARD, SON-IN-LAW, DAVID POCKRUS, SR.; GRANDSONS, ROGER POCKRUS AND DAVID POCKRUS, JR.; GREAT GRANDSON, JUSTIN POCKRUS; BROTHERS AND SISTERS, J. T. REED, RUTH MC COY AND ONA MAE GARLAND.
PALLBEARERS ARE JOSHUA POCKRUS, DENNIS GARLAND, BRANDON HELMS, CHARLES THOMAS, JOHN KEMP, CHARLES HILGER AND CHARLIE WILLIAMS. HONORARY PALLBEARER IS JENNIFER BREAM.
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