Obituary:  Cora Howland   

Cora Howland

CROSS PLAINS - Cora Howland, 106, died Wednesday in Paris, Texas.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel with Knox Waggoner and Dr. Jim O'Dell officiating. Burial will be in Cottonwood Cemetery.

Ms. Howland was born in Cottonwood and graduated from Simmons College, now Hardin-Simmons University, in 1918. She was a homemaker and moved to Cross Plains from Paris, Texas. She was a member of Cross Plains Senior Citizens Center and First Baptist Church.

Survivors include one daughter, Gail Martin; one granddaughter, Becky Reaves; three great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

Abilene Reporter News, Abilene, Texas, May 3, 1997