Rosie Mary Tipton-Howard

Rosie Mary Tipton-Howard obituary

Rosie Mary Tipton-Howard

Rosie Tipton-Howard Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home - Pontiac on Sep. 12, 2025.

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TIPTON-HOWARD, Mrs. Rosie Mary - Age 79, passed away Thursday September 4, 2025 at Canterbury on the Lake. Family hour 10:00AM Saturday, September 13, 2025 at Welcome Missionary Baptist Church, 143 Oneida Street, with funeral service commencing immediately at 10:30AM. Pastor Douglas P. Jones, officiating. Interment Oak Hill Cemetery, 216 University Drive. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 10:30AM Saturday. Mrs. Tipton-Howard will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 268 North Perry Street, and may be viewed from 12:00-6:00PM Friday. Mrs. Tipton-Howard leaves to cherish her memory: children, John Tipton, Calvin "Spoolie" Seay, Sr., Carlos "Crokey" Tipton and Amey Tipton; host of grandchildren and great grandchildren; siblings, Jimmie Harrison, Dorothy Dilworth, Margaret Dillahunty and Bennie Lash; and a host of other nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends. Mrs. Tipton-Howard was preceded in death by her parents, James William Tipton and Mary Lash; grandson, Calvin Seay, Jr.; niece, Monique "DeDe" Tipton; nephew, Charles "Baldy" Manning; brother, Terry Lash.

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