Graveside service for Frank O'Howell, 59, of Tuscombia, Ala., formerly of Cape Girardeau, was held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Chad McIntosh officiated.
He died Monday, Dec. 22, 1997, in Tuscombia.
He was born March 2, 1938, in Cape Girardeau, son of D.L. and Helen Lucille Brown O'Howell. They preceded him in death.
He was a truck driver with Curtis Transportation for many years and had served in the U.S. Army.
He is survived by a close friend, Jean Tubbs of Tuscombia; a son, Lee O'Howell of Tuscombia; two brothers, Billy Gene O'Howell of Garden Prairie, Ill., and Charles Edward O'Howell of Harvard, Ill.; four sisters, Mary Lou Switzer of Marengo, Ill., Linda Mae O'Howell and Ane Marks of Antioch, Ill., and Betty Fedderly of Belvidere, Ill.; and a grandchild.
He was preceded in death by a brother and sister.
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