Graveside services for Jennie Bethenia Keeling Howard, 76, of Wynnewood, formerly of the Allen area are 1:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Allen Cemetery, Rev. Gene Williams will officiate. Family and friends may call at the Allen Chapel from 4:00 p.m. Tuesday until service time.
Mrs. Howard passed away Sunday, February 14, 2016 at a Pauls Valley nursing home. She was born December 30, 1940 at Gerty to Oliver C. and Edna Rose Abercrombie Keeling.
She married Walter Zack Howard in 1962. He preceded her in death in 1995. Mrs. Howard worked in the Laundry Services at the Wynnewood Care Center for 24 years.
She is survived by her four children, Bobby Howard and wife Stacey of Elmore City, Rodney Howard and wife Rachel of Allen, Audra Williams and husband Paul of Holdenville and Clifton Howard and wife Turenia of Pauls Valley; two brothers, her twin, Garley Keeling and his wife Sonya of Pasadena, TX and Olen Keeling and wife Donna of Fittstown; four sisters, Lola Sullivan of Pauls Valley, Oleva Bratton of Louisiana, Essie Keeling of Pauls Valley and Mickey Dennings of Van Alystne, TX; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; her brothers, Willard Keeling, Dewey Keeling, Dorsie Keeling, E. E. Keeling and Donald Keeling; and her sisters, Othie Keeling, Pauline Davis and Connie Harris.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
