HOWELL, Harold

HOWELL September 27, 1937 – March 14, 2024 HAROLD HOWELL, beloved husband of the late C. Ermine Howell, passed away at. St. Michael’s Health Centre – Palliative Care Unit, surrounded by his family on Thursday, March 14th, 2024, of the age of 86 years. Harold had been struggling with failing health for many years.
Harold is survived by his children: Julienne (Daniel) Dyck, Suzanne (Michael) Heggaton and Joanne (Darrell) Peters; grandchildren: Tammy, Terry, Allan (Toni), Alyssa (Darcy), Andrew (Cass), Stephen (Josie), Johnathon (Maddy) and Sarah as well as numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren that he loved dearly. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews in Wales.
Harold is finally back with his wife Ermine, and joins his Mum, Elsie Howell (née Parry) and Dad, Harold Howell and his brother David Howell.
Harold was born September 27, 1937, in Flint, North Wales. He fell in love with his soul mate Ermine Howell (Eccles) in 1955 and they married on August 27, 1958. Harold enlisted into the British army in 1958 and became a Welsh Guard. While stationed in Germany in 1962, Ermine became pregnant with twins, and went back home to deliver them. Then in 1964, Ermine returned to Wales from Germany for the birth of their last child. They had a perfect family with three girls. Harold was a bricklayer by trade.
The family immigrated to Canada in 1975 and started our new lives in Gimli, Manitoba. In 1977, the family moved to our forever home in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Harold worked for many years as a bricklayer, then he worked for Canadian Linen until he started with Lethbridge Housing Authority as head maintenance man for over 20 years.
He then retired when he and Mum bought Aslan Daycare in 1989. He loved doing the maintenance, building furniture for the daycare, which we still use daily. He loved being called Grandad every time one of the children saw him. He also was the main man especially at paydays. After the passing of our Mum (Ermine) he continued to keep the family atmosphere of caring about not only the children but the ladies that have worked for Aslan over the last 35 years.
In 2018, he underwent a double by-pass, which he never fully recovered from. The last couple of years, he was in congestive heart failure which he battled with strength and determination. Even though he couldn’t do everything he used to, he still loved to go Glamping and doing the paperwork for Aslan.
All our family had time to spend with him, there are no regrets that he didn’t know how much everyone loved him.
A Service of Remembrance will be held at CORNERSTONE FUNERAL HOME, 2825 – 32 Street South, Lethbridge, AB, on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 10:30 A.M. with Pat Siedlecki officiating.

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