Lan Howard, Jr.

January 5, 1919 - November 26, 2009

Lan Howard, Jr., age 90, of Highway 173, Elliott County, Kentucky, passed away Thursday morning, November 26, 2009, at the Saint Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead, Kentucky. Mr. Howard was born January 5, 1919, in Morgan County, Kentucky, a son of the late Lan and Pearlie Elliott Howard. June was a retired farmer and of the Apostolic faith. He was a fifty-year member of the Hepburn Masonic Lodge #576 in Sandy Hook, Kentucky and a United States Army Veteran. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Iva Kegley Howard; three brothers, Lonnie Howard, Luther Howard and Willie Howard; one sister, Ethel Bowling. He is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Gary and Betty Jo Howard; one granddaughter Penney Trent and her husband T. J.; one great-granddaughter, Bailey Trent all of Morehead, Kentucky. Along with a host of extended family and friends who will sadly mourn his passing. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, November 29, 2009, in the chapel of the Waddell & Whitt Funeral Home in Sandy Hook, Kentucky, with Elder Arnold Ison and Pastor O. D. Rudd officiating. Burial will follow in the Bowling-Todd Cemetery on Neal Howards Creek. Friends may call after 5:00 p.m. Saturday and anytime until the service hour Sunday at the funeral home. Randy Wagoner, Emerson Howard, Darrell Hitch, Willard Bowling, Mason Horton, Mike Flannery, Travis Trent. Herbert Bowling and T. J. Trent will serve as pallbearers.