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Oleta Marie Howell Herd, 83, of Spring, formerly of Greenville, died Monday, March 16, 2009, in Health South Hospital of Houston. Funeral services will be 2:00 PM, Friday, March 20, 2009, in Coker-Mathews Chapel with Rev. Merlyn Klink officiating. Interment will be in Forest Park Cemetery.
Mrs. Herd was born January 4, 1926, in Quinlan to Walter E. Howell and Willie G. O'Hara Howell. On September 25, 1947, she married James Ray Herd in Greenville. She was a former assembler at LTV in Greenville and was a member of the First Church of The Nazarene.
She is survived by a daughter, Patricia H. Wineinger of Spring; sons, James E. Herd, Sr. of Florida and Chris D. Herd and wife, Jeanna of Greenville; grandchildren, Christa Samples, Hillary Gilliam, Craig Wineinger, Liwanag Herd, James Herd, Jr., and Leeann Herd; and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband on February 11, 2008; her parents, Walter E. Howell in 1990 and Willie Howell in 1996; a sister, Shirley Childers in 2007; and a son, Philip Ray Herd in 1948.
Pallbearers will be James Herd, Jr., Nick Gilliam, Johnny Lewis, Kelly Lewis, Craig Wineinger, and Justin Samples.
The family requests memorials be made to the American Diabetes Association.