Mrs. Howard was the mother of Timothy (Monica) Howard, Kathleen Howard and Kevin (Joy Chen) Howard, grandmother to Timothy (Kristine) Howard, Kelly Poders and Joseph Howard, great -grandmother to Rebecca, Allison and Nicole Howard and Amanda and Steven Poders, sister to Jean Rowe of Dowagiac, MI, and many nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Howard was born in Chicago on January 29, 1922, she graduated from Wells High School in 1939 and married Joseph Howard at St. Columbkille Catholic Church in Chicago on September 30, 1950. Besides being a homemaker, she held many jobs, including working at Montgomery Ward during WWII and the longest being at First National Bank. Mrs. Howard loved traveling, reaching as far as Ireland and Norway and thoroughly enjoyed day / weekend trips.
Besides her parents and her husband, she is preceded in death by her siblings, Shirley (Rowe) Barragan, Russell Rowe and Patricia Rowe.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Malec & Sons Funeral Home in Chicago, IL. Burial will be at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, IL. Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, there will be no services.
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