Visitation:
5-7 p.m. Tuesday, May 30, 2017, at Holland Barry &
Bennett Funeral Home.
Service:
11 a.m. Wednesday, May 31, at the funeral home
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Doris Waneta Howell, 91, of Lincoln, formerly of
Lombard passed away May 22, 2017, at the Christian
Village.
Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, May 30,
2017, at Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May
31, 2017, also at the funeral home with Chaplain
Ryan Edgecombe officiating. Burial will follow in
Zion Cemetery, Lincoln.
Doris was born September 8, 1925, in Lincoln, the
daughter of Elmer L. Gehlbach and Alma C. (Werth)
Gehlbach. She married Floyd Richard Howell on June
11, 1950, in Lincoln. He preceded her in death on
October 29, 2005.
Mrs. Howell graduated from Lincoln Community High
School in 1943 and graduated from Lincoln College in
1945 with an Associate of Arts Degree. She was a
Charter Member of the Women's Auxiliary of Central
DuPage Hospital in Winfield, and a member of the
Green Valley unit of the DuPage County Homemakers
Extension Association. |
Survivors include her son Bruce G, Howell of Morton, grandsons Jason Howell and
Andrew Howell also of Morton and sister Norma Rankin of Urbana.
She was preceded in death by her parents her husband Floyd, and her son Brian K.
Howell.
Memorial donations may be made to The Christian Village and will be accepted at
the funeral home.
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