Obituary from unnamed newspaper: Floyd Eldon Howard, 70, farmer and stockman, died Sunday, November 5, 1989. He was born October 24, 1919 in Mulvane, Gore Township, Sumner County, the son of Clifford A. and Ethel Bartholomew Howard. He attended schools in Mulvane and graduated from Mulvane High School. He worked at Boeing in Wichita before joining the Army Air Force. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II for four years. He was an aircraft mechanic stationed in Australia and New Guinea. He came to Toronto after the war to farm and ranch with his parents. The family moved southeast of Toronto where Floyd farmed and ranched with his father until constructitn [sic] of the Toronto Dam displaced them. Moving to Neal, Floyd and his father continued in the ranching partnership. On May 26, 1958 he was married to Hettie Hayden in Miami, Okla. and they made their home in Neal. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Woodson Lodge No. 121 A.F. & A.M., Toronto, and Toronto American Legion Post 325, and National, Kansas and Greenwood County Cattlemen’s associations. Survivors are his wife, Hettie, of the home, his mother, Ethel Howard, Mulvane, two brothers and their wives, Wayne and Mary Howard, Garfield, Ark., and Orene and Peggy Howard Independence, and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother, Herbert, who died in childhood, and his father in 1974. Funeral services were held at the Campbell Funeral Home at 11 am., Wednesday, November 8, 1989 with Rev. Bruce Gass officiating. Interment was in Mulvane Cemetery, Mulvane. A memorial has been established in his name to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation. Contributions may be left at the funeral home.