Grace the daughter of Mrs. Charles Howard, Route 1 Leon, died here at 2:15 yesterday afternoon from burns sustained that morning when her clothing caught fire from an open stove. She received deep burns on both arms and legs and on the chest, face and neck. The Leon girl was rushed to the Allen Memorial Hospital here but efforts to save her life proved futile.
Grace was born at DeGraff on January 22, 1924, and resided in Butler County all her life.
In addition to her mother, she is survived by five brothers, Emmett Howard of Winfield, Iowa. Grattan, Ewing, Claude and Marion all of Leon. A sister Mrs. Homer Dyke of Sterling, and a grandmother, Mrs. Ruth Parker, of Avoca, Ark.
El Dorado Times April 8,1939
Grace the daughter of Mrs. Charles Howard, Route 1 Leon, died here at 2:15 yesterday afternoon from burns sustained that morning when her clothing caught fire from an open stove. She received deep burns on both arms and legs and on the chest, face and neck. The Leon girl was rushed to the Allen Memorial Hospital here but efforts to save her life proved futile.
Grace was born at DeGraff on January 22, 1924, and resided in Butler County all her life.
In addition to her mother, she is survived by five brothers, Emmett Howard of Winfield, Iowa. Grattan, Ewing, Claude and Marion all of Leon. A sister Mrs. Homer Dyke of Sterling, and a grandmother, Mrs. Ruth Parker, of Avoca, Ark.
El Dorado Times April 8,1939
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Charles Coleman Howard Jr
1899–1924
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Emmett Shelby Howard
1900–1979
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Flora Ophelia Howard Dyke
1903–1998
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Grattan Elmer "Grat" Howard
1905–1971
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Loretta Clandora Howard
1908–1917
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Euing Quantrell Howard Sr
1910–1990
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Claude Duvale Howard
1912–1987
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Evan Wellington Howard
1914–1917
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Robert Lee Howard
1915–1917
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Berta Blanche Howard
1918–1921
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Marion Monroe Howard Sr
1920–1970
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