It is with great sadness that the family of Dorothy Anne Galeone Howell announce that she passed away at the age of 104 on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. A funeral mass was celebrated at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at St. Peter Catholic Church in Grenada. Family and friends gathered one hour prior to mass on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at the church.
“Gram” was her family’s role model and matriarch, and she was the best woman they knew. Born on Aug. 23, 1920, in Riverside, R.I., Dorothy was the third of seven children in an Irish-Italian family. She graduated from St. Mary Academy – Bay View and a nursing school affiliated with Yale University. She cherished the years she spent working as a labor and delivery nurse at the Homeopathic Hospital of Rhode Island.
In 1945, Dorothy married Herman Howell. They lived in New York and Indiana before settling in Grenada in 1956. She was a doting mother, grandmother, great grandmother and great-great grandmother. Dorothy was a long-time member of St. Peter Catholic Church, serving for decades as eucharistic minister and attending daily mass. God and family meant everything to Dorothy.
Into her 80s, Dorothy cooked delicious meals each weekday just in case a hungry family member dropped by – and knowing this, they always did. Her spaghetti, meatballs and hot Italian sausage were legendary. She loved to travel, crochet and cheer on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team.
Her family and friends will dearly miss Gram’s unconditional love, quick wit, friendship and food.
Her parents; her six siblings; her husband, Herman, and her son-in-law, Roger, preceded Dorothy in death.
Survivors include, her children, Suzanne Robinson and her husband, Clyde; Steve Howell and his wife, Sandra, and Deborah Patterson; her grandchildren, Stephanie Raper and her husband, David; Matthew Howell and his wife, Sabrina; Nathan Howell and his wife, Jennifer, and Casey Patterson; her great grandchildren, Alexandra Holland-Upp and her husband, Matthew; Cooper Howell, Macy Howell and Rebecca Howell; her great-great grandchildren Taylor Upp and Bentley Upp and a host of adoring nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be directed to St. Jude or Methodist Children’s Homes of Mississippi, which facilitated the adoption of her great-great grandson, Bentley.
Online condolences can be expressed to the family at www.mckibbenandguinn.com
McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada was in charge of arrangements.
