Mary Frances Howell Stone
Published 6:26 pm Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Mary Frances Howell Stone, age 84, departed this life Feb. 10, 2015, at Park Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Selma.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Alvin Phillip (Jack) Stone (1928-2002). She was the daughter of Ethel May Pressley Howell (1898-1970) and Harmon A. Howell (1896-1961) of Moundville. She was also preceded in death by her sisters, Eleanor Mae Howell (1936-2015), Earline Howell Gilliam (1928-2004) and Galdon (Golden) Howell (1916-1993); brothers, Franklin R. Howell (1931-2012), Harmon A. Howell Jr, (1926-2007), Bufford Howell (1913-1998), John L. Howell, (1921-1992) and Roy Edward Howell (1918-1980); and is survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
A special thanks to her first cousin, Doris Maxine Hamm, for being her best friend, and to Joanne Hise, director of nursing and all of the staff at Park Place Nursing Center for providing such attentive care over the past eight years. Graveside services will be Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, at 1 p.m. at Pineview Memory Gardens in Valley Grande with the Rev. Cory Horton, pastor of Elkdale Baptist Church, officiating.