Patricia ?Patty? Minkler Howell

Eleanor Patricia ?Patty? Minkler Howell, 91, of Gautier, Miss., died Friday, July 15, 2011, at home.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. July 28 at St. John?s Episcopal Church in Pascagoula, Miss. Visitation will follow in Parish Hall.

A second memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 4 at Chapel of the Transfiguration at Kanuga Episcopal Conference Center in Hendersonville, N.C. Burial will follow in Kanuga.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the St. John?s Episcopal Church Endowment Fund, 3507 Pine St., Pascagoula, or to the Patricia Minkler Howell Endowment for Children?s Outreach at Kanuga Episcopal Conference Center, P.O. Box 250, Hendersonville, NC 28793-0250.

Mrs. Howell was born April 8, 1920, in Evanston, Ill., the daughter of Ricker and Louise Genevieve Watkins Van Metre. She married Frederick C. Minkler Jr. Dec. 30, 1942, in Evanston, Ill. He died in August 1987 in Hendersonville, N.C. She married George W. Howell Oct. 24, 1993, in Hendersonville, N.C.

Survivors include her second husband; four children: Penny Fitz-Randolph and husband David of Fairfield, Rick F.C. Minkler III of Gautier, Peter Minkler and wife Trudy of Hatch, Utah, and David Minkler of Pascagoula; two grandsons; one stepdaughter, Jenny Felder and husband Darryl of Lafayette, La.; and one stepson, Jeffrey Howell of Hilton Head Island, S.C.

To see the full obituary, read the July 20, 2011, print edition of The Fairfield Ledger.