Funeral arrangements set for Rep. Wayne Howard

The Howard household extends its sincerest gratitude for the love and assist for the reason that demise of Consultant Henry “Wayne” Howard. As a fiercely devoted
consultant to Georgia Home District 124, Consultant Howard served his constituents with compassion whereas preventing for laws that might
enhance his district and the state of Georgia.

Born on Sept. 1, 1955, in Augusta to late State Consultant Henry L. and late Thelma Jones-Howard. Wayne, as he was affectionately recognized, was the fourth of eight youngsters raised by his father and the late Arnestine Howard and his grandmother Lenora Collier.

Howard graduated from Lucy C. Laney Excessive College in 1973 and attended Augusta School. As a businessman, he began out as a carpet installer and furnishings upholsterer earlier than stepping into the lads’s retail clothes enterprise. The Howard household enterprise finally diversified between furnishings, occasion promotions, Parade of Quartets manufacturing, retail, and politics.

As a group chief, Howard was awarded for his work beginning the Lucy Craft Laney Excessive College Mentoring Program for at-risk youth, and for being one of many founders of the New Savannah Street Social Providers Outreach Program that supplied tutoring and actions to youth and seniors. Howard was on the Board of Administrators for the Augusta Youth Heart, was a member of the historic Tabernacle Baptist Church, and was a member of the C.S. Hamilton Male Refrain and the Sanctuary Choir. He was beforehand a member of Inexperienced Grove Missionary Baptist Church from 1965 to 2002 the place he was ordained as a Deacon, served as chairman of the trustee and finance ministries, was president of the Mass Choir, and labored intently with the youth ministry.

His political profession started within the Seventies when he was actively concerned in working for his father, a consultant of District 121. He served as state consultant of Districts 121 and 124 since 2007.

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Together with a big prolonged household, Consultant Howard leaves to cherish his reminiscence, his spouse Cassandria, his youngsters Laron Howard and Nicole (Daryen) Amaker, and two granddaughters, Amari Lampkin and Daelyn Amaker, 4 brothers and three sisters. He was preceded in demise by his treasured daughter Alva Lampkin.