IRENE FAZEL-HOWARD 1917 to 2012

HOWARD, FAZEL, RHOADS, CHAPMAN, CANBY, COLE, MANLEY, BUDD, HOHANSHELT, SANTI, WEST

Posted By: James Mincks (email)
Date: 1/9/2012 at 17:56:34

Irene Fazel Howard died at 1:31 a.m. on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at the Perry Lutheran Home. Visitation is Monday, January 9 at the Carris Funeral Home, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by graveside service at 1:30 p.m. at Violet Hill Cemetery. Memorials will be given to the Perry Lutheran Home and may be left at the funeral home.

She was born on November 19, 1917. Her parents are Stacey Emmet Rhoads and Mabel Ellen Chapman. Irene was preceded in death by her parents, an infant brother, Stacey Levi, and a brother Richard Rhoads; also an infant daughter, Judith Ann Fazel, husband Earl Fazel and second husband, Archie Howard.

Survivors include a son, Earl J. Fazel, two daughters, Karen Sue Canby, and Gloria Cole; also stepchildren, Brian Tracy Howard, Mary Jo Manley, and Elizabeth Susan Budd; and three sisters, Mary Hohanshelt, Alice Santi, and Nellie West.

Irene belonged to the Eastern Star. She especially loved her family, gardening, music and making scrapbooks. She worked for Woolworth Dime Store, and Spurgeons in Perry, Iowa and for Kresge's in Des Moines, Iowa. In her retirement years she enjoyed meeting and visiting friends at Hy-Vee Restaurant.

Online condolences may be sent at www.carrisfuneralhome.com

taken from the Des Moines Sunday Register, Metro section; January 8, 2012; page 8B, column 6.