Eddie Lee Howard died Thursday, May 22, 2014 at Community East Hospital in Indianapolis, Ind. He was 60.

Mr. Howard was born Oct. 16, 1953, in Vicksburg. He was of the Baptist faith. He graduated from Warren Central High in 1972 and was a self-employed landscaper for many years before moving to Indiana to live with his companion and his daughter.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Sarah Hicks Howard; paternal grandparents, Joseph Howard Sr. and Viola and Annie Howard; maternal grandparents, Richard Daniels and Josephine Brown; uncles, Albert Young and Leon Blackmore; and aunts Susie Anna Blackmore and Dorothy Mae Jones.

Survivors include; two daughters, Nichole Howard of Indiana and Latasha Galloway of Vicksburg; three sons, Eddie Howard Jr., Jerome Howard, and Louis Grant, all of Vicksburg; parents, Joseph and Dora Mae Howard of Vicksburg; six sisters, Mary Ann Lewis, Joe Evelyn and Lee Dora Howard all of Vicksburg, Jerridine and Barbara Howard of Jackson, and Gloria Jean Holmes of Lincoln, Neb.; three brothers, George Maniel of Starkville, Anthony J. Howard of Vicksburg, and Billy Ray Howard of Bolton; grandchildren and great-grandchildren; aunts an uncle; and members of the  Banks, Blackmore, Bradford, Brown, Carter, Davis, Erves, Gaskin, Mace, Maniel, Prentiss, Watts, Hicks, and other relatives and friends, including his companion, Mary Jones of Indiana.

Services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home, with the Rev. Joseph Brisco officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation is today at the funeral home from 1 to 7 p.m. with the family present from 6 to 7 p.m.