Stone, Howard

Passed: 2006-05-15

Age: 85

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice: 2006-05-23

Obituary Date:

Information: BELPRE, OH - Howard Stone, 85, of Belpre, OH, passed away at Camden-Clark Hospital on May 15, 2006.  He was born July 27, 1920, in Leon, the son of John Cashus and Cora Robinson Stone.  He was a veteran of World War II.  He served in the Navy in the South Pacific as a motor machinist mate. He retired after thirty years with Union Carbide of Marietta's steam station.  He and his son, Dana, farmed extensively in Washington and Athens Counties as Stone's Family Farms.  He attended the Tri-City Baptist Church.  His life was spent very simply as a hard-working man who loved God, his family, his country and his ability to work.      He is survived by his wife, Olive Smith Stone; daughters, Lynn Karen Carson and husband, Ralph, Sharon Diane Kontos and husband, Nicholas; son, Dana Kent Stone and wife, Cynthia; grandchildren, Jason Alan Morley Carson, Julie Lynn Coleman and husband, Jess, Nichole Louise Erickson and husband, Greg, Gabriel Howard Stone, Eleni Christina Kontos-Miller and her husband, Christopher, Cashus Isaac Stone, Kent Howard Stone and Katherine Jo Stone; great-grandaughters, Abby Grace and Emma Faith Coleman; sisters, Wynona Holcomb, Inez Cunningham, Anna Belle Barrickman; brother, DeWaine K. Stone. He was preceded in death by his son, Ronald Howard Stone.  Funeral services were held on Friday, May 19, 2006, at 2 p.m.  Burial followed in Rockland Cemetery.  In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Grace Gospel Church in Pettyville for the missionary work of his grandson, Jason, missionary to Taiwan.