Sara Tucker Howell, 87, of Ocilla, Georgia died Friday evening at Tift Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M. Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at Brushy Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Irwin County with Pastor Joe Sims, III and Elder Mickey Harris officiating. Interment will follow in the Brushy Creek Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 Monday evening at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mrs. Howell was born August 18, 1922 in Irwin County to the late Walton and Nellie Mixon Tucker. She was a former employee of Heller’s Manufacturing, Walker’s 5 & 10, Luke’s 5 &10, Heritage Care Home in Ocilla and was a substitute teacher at Irwin County Elementary School. A farm wife, she was a member of Brushy Creek Primitive Baptist Church and the Golden Agers of Tifton, GA. She enjoyed flower gardening.
She is survived by her son, Danny Howell of Ocilla; Daughters, Sarah Evelyn and Joe Sims of Hernando, FL, Barbara H. Gill of Ocilla and Gina and Billy Paulk of Ocilla; Grandchildren, Tim and Cindy Sims, Chad Sims, Shannon and Keith Dixon, Shane and Sherry Howell, Taft and Tonya Gill, Channing Paulk, Clint Paulk, Clay Paulk and Paige and Dave Harper; 15 Great- grandchildren; 1 brother, Tommy (Fran) Tucker of Ocilla. Along with her parents and husband, Dan Thomas Howell, she was preceded in death by daughter-in-law Sue Weeks Howell and son-in-law Larry J. Gill, Brother Kenneth Tucker, sister, Margaret Nash and Georgia T. Lewis.