Funeral for Robert Howell, 84, Lawton will be at 1:30 PM Monday at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Royce Littrell, retired United Methodist Minister and Rev. Ken Baden, pastor of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church officiating. Mr. Howell died Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in Lawton. Burial will be in Pecan Cemetery, southwest of Lawton under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. The family will receive friends from 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM on Sunday at the funeral home. He was born January 19, 1927 in Lawton to Alfred and Freda (Bangerter) Howell. He was raised in the Faxon area and attended Pecan School and Faxon High School. He married Mary K. Cook on June 15, 1952 at Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, southwest of Lawton. He served in the United States Army from March 1955 until honorably discharged in March of 1957. He was employed on a dairy farm and later in construction, and worked for Gordon Plumbing for 10 years. He started his own business, Robert Howell Plumbing in 1970 and worked as a plumbing contractor until his retirement in 1992. He was a member of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Men. He served as Sunday School Superintendent and Mr. Fixit for many years. He built all of the cabinets in the Wesley Chapel Fellowship Center as well as many other woodworking projects. He was an avid fisherman as long as his health permitted and provided many of the fish for the church fish fry for many years. Survivors include his wife, of the home, two daughters, Kathy Prince and Jim, Lawton and Susan Yates and Jim, Cache, five grandchildren, Kristy Oetken and Keith , Lawton, Jennifer Prince and fiancé Curtis Cable, Fletcher, Matthew Harrison and Morgan, Lawton, Carissa Mithlo and Aubrey, Lawton and Vicki Brown, Hauptstuhl, Germany. He is also survived by four great grandchildren, Ella, Shepard, Delaney and Rosie, three brothers, Leonard Howell, Lawton, Harold Howell and Donna, Faxon and Earl Howell and Karen, Indiahoma, four sisters, Lucille Huffine, Lawton, Dorothy Couch, Jonesville, North Carolina, Lavelle Hair, Athens, Texas and Helen Porter and Dorwen, Lawton and a brother-in-law, Glen Hamilton, Lawton, as well as many nieces, nephews and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, four sisters, Janelle Howell, Mary King, Mildred Hamilton and Lois Matlock, an infant brother and brothers-in-law, Homer Matlock, W.H. King, Jimmy Couch, J.C. Hair and Freeman Huffine. Memorial contributions may be made to the Wesley Chapel Building Fund, P.O. Box 6025, Lawton, OK 73506.