Howard - Leslie
Leslie HOWARD
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 8 January 1974 p 4
Services were conducted Wednesday at Sterling Christian Church for Leslie H. Howard, 75, of Veedersburg Route 3, a town board member and owner of Howard's Appliance for 30 years. He died unexpectedly at 8 a.m. Monday (Jan. 7, 1974) at Lake View Memorial Hospital in Danville. He had been a patient for two weeks. The Rev. Kenneth Stith officiated. Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery at Hillsboro. The family requested memorials be contributions to the Sterling Christian Church Memorial Fund. Born June 2, 1908, in Veedersburg, he was the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles E. Howard. He was married June 15, 1930 in Veedersburg to Pauline Smith , who survives. A deacon of the Sterling Christian Church, he had been a member for over 50 years. He was a member of the Lions Club and Veedersburg Town Board of which he was past president. A board member of the Community Action Program, He was president of the Fountain County Historical Society, Vice Chairman of Van Buren-Troy Farm Bureau and past president of Fountain County Tuberculosis Association. He had been active several years in the Fountain County Red Cross and had served as publicity chairman of the Veedersburg Centennial. Survivors include a son, William E. of Olympia, WA; a daughter, Mrs. Keith (Margery) Smith of Lafayette; three brothers, Everett V. and Lawrence W. both of Veedersburg and Owen S. of Tucson AZ; two sisters, Mrs. James (Ruth) Andrews of Veedersburg and Mrs. Thomas (Dorothy) Adler of Decatur, IN and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother and a granddaughter. -- tch