1947
Mary Howell
2023
Mary Rutherford Howell
May 24, 1947 — December 8, 2023
Beulah
Mary Rutherford Howell age 76 of Beulah, MS passed away Friday December 8, 2023, at the Bolivar Medical Center in Cleveland, MS.
Visitation will be Monday, December 11, 2023, from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM at Cleveland Funeral Home. The funeral service will be held Tuesday, December 12, 2023, at 11:00 AM in the Cleveland Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Beulah Cemetery in Beulah, MS. Reverend Walter Goldsmith will officiate the service.
Mary was born May 24, 1947, to William Claude Rutherford and Ruby Gordon Barnett in Ieager, West Virginia. Mary grew up in West Virginia and moved to Florida to be a nursery operator where she met and married Johnny Howell on September 02, 1972, in Dawsonville, GA. They moved to Mississippi and finally settled in the Beulah MS area. Mary enjoyed working on crossword puzzles, watching soap operas, riding the countryside, and loving on her grandbabies. as well as her canine child. Mary was a member of South Side Baptist Church in Benoit.
She was preceded in death by her parents William Rutherford and Ruby Barnett, husband Johnny Howell, brother Wilber Ray Rutherford, and daughter Angela Charlene Norman.
Mary is survived by her children, Robert Lee Howell, Dale E. Howell, and John Howell (Beverly), and siblings, Johnny Rutherford, Claude Edward Howell, Teresa Lorene Rutherford, and Earnest Eugen Rutherford and 7 grandchildren.
Pallbearers are John Howell, Robert Haynes, Bradford Willard, Shawn Contreras, Sammy Contreras, Jr., and Gene Vernum.
Cleveland Funeral Home has been entrusted with the service arrangements.
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Monday, December 11, 2023
5:00 - 7:00 pm (Central time)
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Funeral Service
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Starts at 11:00 am (Central time)
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