Patricia Howell

Patricia Ann Howell COLUMBUS JCT, Iowa--Patricia Ann Howell, 72, died on November 14, 2011, from complications of ALS. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, November 19, 2011, at the United Presbyterian Church, 705 Second Street, Columbus Junction, Iowa 52738. Pastor Faye Fedlam will officiate the service. A lunch will be provided following the service at the Masonic Hall in Columbus City. Private Burial will take place at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to Columbus Junction United Presbyterian Church and the ALS Association. The Honts Funeral Home in Winfield is assisting the family with arrangements. Patricia was born on November 30, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of Lowry and Gertrude Hester Massie. Upon graduating from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, she attended University of Kentucky and nursing school before starting her lifelong service in nursing and public health. A blind date, while Jim was in the Army in New Jersey, resulted in a 49-year marriage to her loving husband, Jim, married June 9, 1962 at East Orange, New Jersey. Pat was the adored mother ...[more]

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Kathy Norman and husband, Brad, Susan Lent and husband, Andrew, and Tom Howell and wife, Tara; her grandchildren are Ann Lent, and Taylor, Victoria, Madeleine, and Cael Howell. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Lowry Massie.