Carrie Lyn Howard

Carrie Lyn Howard obituary, Harlan, KY

Carrie Lyn Howard

Carrie Howard Obituary

Visit the Mount Pleasant Funeral Home website to view the full obituary.

Carrie Lyn Howard, 54, passed on July 9th, 2025, comforted by her husband of 34 years.

Carrie was a loving wife and homemaker, believed in the Pentecostal faith and loved being outdoors riding motorcycles and 4 wheelers and spending time with her fur baby Tippy.

Carrie was preceded in death by her father, Ernest Brock, mother, Nancy Perline Hopper Brock, niece, Tasha Nicole Beaman, and great nephews and nieces, Sky, Ariel and Daniel.

Carrie is survived by her loving husband Gary Robert Howard, brother-in-law and sister, Rick and Denise Beaman, nephew and wife, Ernest Allen and Miranda Beaman, great nephew's and niece's, Dakota, Jase, Grayson, Allie, Kayla and Rose Beaman, brother-in-law, David, sisters-in-law, Jennifer, Victoria and Jessica and Aunt Martha Lemons. She is also survived by many other family and friends.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" - John 3:16

Visitation for Mrs. Howard will be held on Sunday, July 13, 2025, from 1 PM until 2 PM in the chapel of Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow at 2 PM with Pastors Bobby Bo Henson and Josh Doyle officiating. Interment will follow at the Howard Family Cemetery on Hwy 221 in Bell County with Kodiak Howard, Dennis Frances, Justin May and Tayton Henson serving as pallbearers.

“The grass witherith, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever” - Isaiah 40:8

Mount Pleasant Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Mrs. Carrie Lyn Howard

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Mount Pleasant Funeral Home

122 N Cumberland Ave., Harlan, KY 40831

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