Dixie Marie Irby Howard's Obituary
CLARENDON Graveside services will be at 2:00 pm on Saturday, January 5, 2008 in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon, with Bright Newhouse, Minister of the Hedley Church of Christ, officiating. INTERMENT - Citizens Cemetery.
Dixie was born on March 3, 1917 in Brownfield to William David & Claudia Townsend Irby. She married George Howard on June 10, 1940 in Oklahoma City, OK. She had been a resident of Clarendon since 1964. She had been a college professor at Clarendon College from 1965-1987. She was a Baptist. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY - her parents; 2 brothers, George Townsend Irby & David Dale Irby. SURVIVORS - her husband, George Howard of Clarendon; a daughter, Karen Gaye Howard Schultz of Amarillo; 2 sons, William Mark Howard of Tampa, Florida & Jeffery Miles Howard of Clarendon; a sister, Virginia Kay Helton of Amarillo; 4 grandchildren, Stonie Howard, Lisa Abdulla, Jeremy Howard, & Kaitlyn Howard; 3 great-grandchildren, Savannah Howard, Kadeja Abdulla, & Khalil Abdulla.
MEMORIALS - The family request memorials be to the American Cancer Society. THE FAMILY WILL BE AT: 103 East 6th Street / Clarendon, Texas 79226/ Phone #: (806)874-3393
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