Margaret was born on October 10, 1924 in Avant, Oklahoma to Charles Samuel Hansard and Gladys Pearson Hansard. She worked at Phillips Petroleum Plant Medical Center as a registered nurse and retired from BSA as a RN. She was a long time member of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas.She is preceded in death by her husband H.A. Howard; her parents, Charles Samuel Hansard and Gladys Hansard; brothers, Eugene and John Hansard; sisters, Patricia Atkins, and Ruth Hutson.Survivors include one sister, Barbara Cribbs and husband Jimmy of Clayton, Washington; sister-in-law Kathryn Hansard Meridian, Texas; eight Nieces and one nephew.