Funeral service for Mary Frances Howerton, 72, of Fairview, Oklahoma, will be 2 PM, Saturday, April 3, 2021, at Cedar Springs Church of the Nazarene west of Fairview.  Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery.  Arrangements by Fairview Funeral Home Inc.

Mary Frances Howerton was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on November 25 ^th , 1948 to Thomas Edgar and Clara Mae (Bynum) Dunaway and left this earth for her heavenly home on March 30, 2021, at the Fairview Fellowship Home in Fairview, Oklahoma surrounded by her family.

Frances was the oldest of four daughters, her father was a sharecropper and the girls would help chop and pick cotton in Rosedale, Mississippi.  During her first marriage, when her children were young, she moved to Missouri.  A few years later, she and the children moved to Oklahoma.  On December 30, 1984 she married Paul Freeman Howerton and her family grew.  They were happily married until his passing on Saturday, August 10, 2019.  She loved shopping and ice cream.

Left to cherish her memory is her children; Gary Thomas and his wife Lori of Longdale, Dale Thomas and his wife Shannon of Edmond and Sherrie Robertson also of Longdale, her step children; Brett and his wife Zara Howerton, Rick and his wife Dixene Howerton, Travis and his wife Cindy Howerton all of Longdale, two daughters; Kathleen and husband Ricky Miller of Fairview and Amber and her husband Andrew Schriever of Las Vegas, Nevada, her sisters; Patricia Ann Gentry, Gloria Gay Gentry,  and Gladys Lee McDaniel sixteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.

Frances was preceded by her parents, Thomas and Clara, husband Paul, brother-in-law Travis Gentry and nephew Travis Earl Gentry.

Memorials can be made to OMRF-Alzheimer Division with the funeral home acting as custodian of the funds.

Condolences may be made online at www.fairviewfuneralhomeinc.com.