{"id":4659,"date":"2020-09-02T17:14:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2020-09-02T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:14:17","slug":"howell-ricky-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/howell-ricky-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Howell, Ricky Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Born May 2, 1955, <strong><em>Ricky Allen Howell<\/em><\/strong> was the oldest child of Henry David and Martha Louise Forrester Howell, both of which have preceded him in death. Ricky was soon joined by brother Ronnie Howell of Nunnelly, sisters Sue Estes of Lyles and Linda Helton of Santa Fe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In 1975 Ricky married the love of his life and soul mate, Felecia Jean Baker and soon had their first son David Allen. Two years later Gregory James arrived followed shortly by Lonnie Matthew. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ricky was a craftsman by trade spending most of his life welding, farming and in construction. He was a skilled guitar player, a pilot, and a cowboy. He had many titles throughout his life, his favorites were BB(big brother), daddy, PawPaw, Uncle Ricky and friend. He was a member of Maple Valley Baptist Church in Nunnelly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ricky leaves behind his three sons David, Greg (Amy), and Matt(Felicity) who blessed him with nine grandchildren: Drew, Alyssa, Brianna, Alex, Abby, Sarah, Tyler, Anna, and Ethan Howell;\u00a0 also brother, Ronnie Howell, sisters, Sue Estes and Linda Helton, and also countless nieces, nephews, and cousins. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation with the family will be held on 5 Jun 2019, from 4:00 PM &#8211; 8:00 PM at McDonald Funeral Home &#8211; Hickman County.\u00a0 Funeral Services will be held on 6 Jun 2019, at 1:00 PM at McDonald Funeral Home &#8211; Hickman County. Burial will follow in the Baker-Hetherly Cemetery, Nunnelly, TN. The family has asked that if you wish to make a memorial donation please do so to help offset funeral expenses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born May 2, 1955, Ricky Allen Howell was the oldest child of Henry David and Martha Louise Forrester Howell, both of which have preceded him in death. Ricky was soon joined by brother Ronnie Howell of Nunnelly, sisters Sue Estes of Lyles and Linda Helton of Santa Fe. In 1975 Ricky married the love of his life and soul mate,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/howell-ricky-allen\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,247,2111],"tags":[58,1172,2524,601,955],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burial-records","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","category-obituaries","tag-baker","tag-estes","tag-forrester","tag-helton","tag-howell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}