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Esther Howell

Mrs. Esther Nivens Howell, 88, of Hope, died Monday, September 11,2 006, at Medical Park Hospital in Hope.

She was born in Wallaceburg, on July 26, 1918, to Add and Minnie Morrow Nivens. She was a retired business partner of the former Howell Oldsmobile and Equipment Co. of Prescott, and retired receptionist with Walker Realty of Hope. She was a member of Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church and the Order of the Eastern Star.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Don Howell; one son, Jessie Wayne Howell; one grandson, Robert Walker; three brothers, John, Leroy and Lyndell Nivens.

Her survivors include two sons, Charles Donald Howell of Texarkana and Mike Howell of Pensacola, Flo.; two daughters, Mary Sue Walker and Janice Howell Walker, both of Hope; one brother, Wendell Nivens of Alabama; four sisters, Naomi Slatton of Little Rock, Bobbye Calhoon of Dallas, Texas, Ruby Brown of Sherwood, and Snow Hill of Blevins; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were at 2 p.m., Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at Brazzel/Oakcrest Funeral Home Chapel in Hope, with Revs. Mike Howell, Coy Zumwalt and Glen Tropp officiating. Burial was in Betty Nivens Cemetery in Wallaceburg Community of Blevins. Arrangements by Brazzel/Oakcrest Funeral Home in Hope.

Family received friends Tuesday, September 12, 2006, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Brazzel/Oakcrest Funeral Home in Hope.