Billie started at the age of 18 working in Washington D.C. for the phone company AT&T. She later moved to Portland, OR and then to Pomona, CA where she continued to work for AT&T and where she met her husband George Howell.
George and Billie June were married in Ontario, CA on October 20, 1956. They were just eight days shy of their 63rd anniversary.
Billie continued to work at AT&T Corp until she had children and became at stay at home mother.
The family moved to Florida in 1964. Billie was a devout Christian woman. She loved quilting, genealogies, scrap booking and most of all working in her yard with her daylilies and orchids.
She was the daughter of the late Clyde E and Ella Vee Hamilton Jory.
She is survived by her husband, George N Howell; son, George D Howell, Brandon, FL; daughter, Lisa R Hutcherson and her husband Robert H Hutcheson Jr. of Lakeland, FL; brother, Clyde Sidney Jory and his wife Sharon of Turtle Town, TN; twin niece, Stachia Cochran and nephew, Tyler Jory of Turtle Town, TN; nephew Paul Keith Hawkins and his wife Debbie of Murphy, NC; and grandsons, Andrew Hutcheson, Matthew Hutcheson, and Jesse Hutcheson of Lakeland, FL.
A Memorial service officiated by Rev Joe Zanio will be held at Hillsboro Memorial Funeral Home on Saturday, September 19, 2019 at 11am; family will start receiving guests at 10am. Inurnment will take place at a later date at Hillsboro Memorial Gardens of Brandon.
In lieu of flowers, the family request memorials be made in memory of Billie June Howell to the charity of your choice.
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