Funeral for Margaret B. Howell, 83, Lawton will be at 2:00 PM Wednesday at Northwest Church of Christ with Monte Ginnings, minister officiating. Mrs. Howell died Saturday in Lawton. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. The family will greet friends from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM on Tuesday at the funeral home. She was born May 4, 1928 near Gracemont, Oklahoma to Robert Hammons and Ida Mae (Price) Pierce. Mrs. Howell attended school at Prairie View, Verden, Tonkawa, Stecker and Apache. She was employed by Lawton Public Schools as a teacher's aide and a cook, Cloth World and as a housekeeper and babysitter. She was an excellent seamstress. Mrs. Howell was a special grandmother spending endless hours with her grandchildren playing games and cooking. She married Donald Howell on December 23, 1944 in Anadarko, Oklahoma. She was a member of Northwest Church of Christ since 1956, being a Sunday School teacher, going on campaigns, providing meals for service men stationed at Fort Sill and inviting children from the Tipton Children's Home into her house for Christmas. She is survived by her husband, of the home, a daughter and son-in-law, Darlene and Harry Gibson, Lebanon, Indiana, a son and daughter-in-law, Roy Don and Pat Howell, Lawton, five grandchildren and their spouses, Stephen and Elizabeth Sullivan, Mesa, Arizona, Brooke Berry and her partner MSG Daniel Greicar, Avon, Indiana, Jake and Jamie Harper, New Palestine, Indiana, Crystal and Eric Weatherly, Lawton and Sherri Goodman, Carthage, Missouri, nine great grandchildren, one brother and his wife, Nolan and Barbara Pierce, Cozad, Nebraska, two brothers-in-law and their spouses, Doland and Artie Howell, Norman and Derwin and Virginia Howell, Joaquin, Texas, three sisters-in-law, Helen Pierce Allen, Oklahoma, Donita Turner and her husband, Marvin, Stover, Missouri and Betty Ann Howell, Lubbock, Texas and a former grandson-in-law, Thomas Bailey, Lawton. She is preceded in death by three brothers, Robert, Loyd and L.D. and two sisters, Eva Hendricks and Ruby Pool. Memorial contributions may be made to Tipton Children's Home, P.O. Box 370, Tipton, OK 73570 or to the Northwest Church of Christ Building Fund, P.O. Box, 6281, Lawton, OK 73506.