Funeral services for Billie Joan Howeth-Strong, 82, Lawton, will be 2:00 pm Tuesday, September 25, at Calvary Baptist Church with Rev. Mike Ellis, Pastor, and Rev. Tom Willoughby, officiating. Mrs. Howeth-Strong died Saturday, September 22, in a Lawton hospital. Burial will be in the Faxon Cemetery, Faxon, Oklahoma under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. The family will receive friends on Monday from 5-7 pm at the funeral home. Billie was born December 13, 1929 in Faxon to Lester O. and Fern Elizabeth (Bowles) Paden. She attended Lincoln Elementary, graduated from Lawton High School and attended Cameron State College. She married her high school and college sweetheart Lyman Howeth on December 31, 1948. He died October 25, 2001. She married Bob Strong in February, 2008, and he died in February, 2009. She had served as church secretary and later the nursery secretary at Calvary Baptist Church. She was employed as a loan officer for the Comanche County Federal Credit Union for many years. Billie had been a member of the Calvary Baptist choir, and she was in charge of the prayer chain. She had also been a member of the Primetimer's Choir at First Baptist Church and had served as an RSVP volunteer. She will be greatly missed as a loving and caring mother, grandmother and friend. Survivors include three daughters and sons in law, Susan and Albert Culp, Marlow, Anna Laura and Chuck Plymesser, Lawton, and Cathy and Dennis Mayo, Indiahoma; many grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren; 2 sisters, Lou and husband L.J. Cloud, Lawton, and Wilma Pursley, Richardson, Texas; a brother in law and sister in law, Vernon and Joy Howeth, Lawton; two special friends, Scotty Louis and Doris Barrett, both of Lawton; and a host of nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands; a daughter, Leslie Joan Howeth; a grandson; a granddaughter in law and two brothers. Memorial contributions may be made to the Baptist Children's Home, 16301 S. Western, Oklahoma City, OK 73170.