LINDA HOWARD

GERTY-Services for Linda Rosetta Howard, 58, Gerty, are 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Allen Church of God of Prophecy, Rev. Ed Rutherford will officiate. Burial will follow at Allen Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the Criswell Chapel in Allen from 4:00 p.m. Thursday until service time.

Mrs. Howard died Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at her home. She was born April 7, 1950 at Blythe, California to Clifford Frank and Retta Jane Carter May. She and her family moved to the Gerty area from California when she was a child. She attended Gerty schools.

She married Cecil Ray Howard on April 21, 1968. Mrs. Howard was a homemaker and a health care provider and babysitter.

Survivors include her husband, Cecil Howard, of the home; three daughters, Penny Ward and husband Jeff, Allen, Mindy Simpson and husband Heath, Gerty, and Sheridan Howard, of the home; a son, David R. Howard and wife Michelle, Fittstown; four brothers, Frankie May, Gerty, Andy May, Norman, Donnie May, Gerty, and Roy May, Allen; three sisters, Nancy Poplin, Del City, Darlene Cash, Cashion, and Ginger Knighten, Allen; and eight grandchildren, Ashley Howard, Levi Howard, Austin Howard, Chase Ward, Hunter Simpson, Trapper Simpson, Heather Simpson, and Michael Simpson.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and a sister, Cora Cox.

Bearers will be David Howard, Dennis Poplin, Tommy Poplin, Billy Cash, Windale Knighten, and Levi Howard.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada