Jimmy Dale Howell

Graveside services for Jimmy Dale Howell, 68, Lawrence, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Howell died Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
He was born on June 22, 1941, in Koshkonong, Mo., the son of Jesse Ivory and Lydia Ethel Brazael Howell.
Mr. Howell was a truck driver for Meyers Dairy. He also worked for amusement companies as a mechanic. He was an automobile driver. He was a member of Fraternal Order of Eagles Mount Oread Aerie 309 in Lawrence.
He married Vicki Emick on Sept. 20, 1975, in Lawrence. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include a daughter, Cindy Creaden, Overland Park; two sons, Jimmy Jr., Eugene, Ore., and Brett Patterson, St. Petersburg, Fla.; six sisters, Thelma Mooney, Springfield, Mo., Alma Sloan, West Plains, Mo., Velma Smith, Cartwright, Okla., Wilma Dunavin, Pittsburgh, Mo., Nelma Brumley, Lawrence, and Janice Moody, Olathe; and six grandchildren.
Friends may call from noon to 9 p.m. Friday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.
The family suggests memorials to a charity of the donor’s choice, sent in care of the mortuary.
Online condolences may be sent at warrenmcelwain .com, subject: Howell.