Clarence Lyle Howell
September 10, 2009
C. Lyle Howell, 90, died Thursday, September 10, 2009, at the Altoona Nursing and Rehab Center. Lyle was born on February 4, 1919, in Dolliver, Iowa. Lyle was a Masseur at Ben Sorensen Gym for many years and retired in 1985.
Lyle is survived by his daughters, Lyla George of New Mexico; Shirley (Don) Norem and Dorothy Noble of Des Moines; ten grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; 24 great-great grandchildren; and his brother, Herbert (Bonnie) of California. He was preceded in death by his wife of 44 years, Helen.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m. Monday, September 14, 2009 at Hamilton's near Highland Memory Gardens, 121 NW 60th Ave., Des Moines, with burial to follow at Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery. A visitation with the family present will be one hour prior to the service.
Memorial contributions may be made to Fellowship Baptist Church in loving memory of Lyle.
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Dorothy Noble
09/13/2009
I sure will miss you and going to the nursing home and seeing all the people there. I'm so glad that you do not have to suffer any longer. I'm gonna miss you so much, my little buddy! I know you're in a better place.
Love you lots.
Dorothy
Linda Dean
09/13/2009
I so enjoyed my time with you and grandma. All the trips to Ogden and getting McDonalds fries & hamburger to share with Great Grandma & Grnadpa Bollenbaugh. I loved to go fishing with you and catching frogs. Yours jokes and stories were so much fun to listen to. You took us under your wing and became our grandfather when you married our grandmother and we where your grand children from that point on with no other questions. We were your grand-children. So I have one last thing to say and you wil know what it means........Gotta go, gotta go gotta go!
With love, Linda
Linda Dean
09/13/2009
Grandpa you will be missed in ways we cannot know right now. I so enjoyed our trips to Ogend and buying great-grandma & grandpa Mc Donalds fires and hamburgers. I also enjoyed time going fishing with you and grandma and catching frogs. Boy did we have fun. So many picnics and roadside parks. I will miss your jokes & stories. You where a kick in the pants with some of those. I have one last thing to say and you will know what it means......Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.
With love Linda
Shirley Olsen
09/13/2009
Grandpa Lyle, I will miss you everyday. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about you and Grandma having the tv on and you two loudly discussing politics. I remember all the stories you use to tell us. I would laugh and laugh and those stories. Or how you and I would eat mashed pototoes with onions. Or how we would go for rides in the old cars and go to Ogden Iowa, drinking out of collispable cups. We had a lot of good times togethers. How about the footballs games? And when you would eat a large Sunday meal with us every Sunday then fall a sleep pretending to be watching the football game. Oh what fun we had taking pictures of you sleeping just to prove you were sleeping. It was a lot of fun when you worked and we could go to the gym and we would swim while you worked on your clients, and see the Pepsi drinking bear. You were the best grandfather to all of us orinary kids. I will love your alwasy. Give Grandma a big hug for all of us. Love always little Shirley
Linda Dean
09/13/2009
Grandpa you will be greatly missed. Your stories and jokes were something we always looked forward to and enjoyed. I will miss you working on my feet and making me feel better. You helped all of us in so many ways when we didn't feel so good.
With lots of love. Linda
Dennis Dean
09/13/2009
We became good firends and I will miss you.