Lynn Matilda Ann Putman

FROM MY MOTHERS RECORDS: BIRTH NAME: MATILDA ANN LYNN HOWARD. HER OLDER SISTERS HELPED NAME HER. THE NAME LYNNWOOD WAS FIRST USED BY A GOOD FRIEND THINKING SHE SHOULD HAVE A "MORE ELEGANT NAME" AND THE NAME "LYNNWOOD" REMAINED, ALTHOUGH NEVER WAS LEGALIZED. THE NAME "BIG MAMA" WAS CREATED BY HER LOVING GRANDCHILDREN.

LYNN WAS A RETIRED BEAUTY SALON OPERATOR AND SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AT HER HOME IN ROGERS, ARKANSAS AT 4:30 P.M. ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1957, BEFORE SHE COULD RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION. HER SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1957.

SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF WILSON LEE AND LUVENIA PALESTINE "TINE" (EDWARDS) HOWARD.

SHE OPERATED A BEAUTY SALON IN PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS FOR FIVE YEARS PRIOR TO 1942 AND IN ANDERSON, MISSOURI FOR 18 YEARS BEFORE MOVING TO ROGERS, AR. IN 1955.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE PEA RIDGE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND JOSEPH MARTIN (J. M.) PUTMAN AND DAUGHTER EVELYN PEARL RAUCH AND HUSBAND CARL RAUCH OF BELLA VISTA, ARKANSAS. SIX GRANDCHILDREN, MERLA LYNN BRUMMETT, ALVIS LANE BRUMMETT, JOHANNAH RAUCH, ROZALEA RAUCH, CHARLES ROBIN RAUCH AND THOMAS RANDY RAUCH. SHE WAS ALSO SURVIVED BY TWO STEP-SONS WILLIAM (BILL) THOMAS PUTMAN AND HIS WIFE SYBIL AND ALBERT B. PUTMAN AND HIS WIFE LELA OF PEA RIDGE AND NIECES JO ANN, BETTY AND JOYCE PUTMAN AND OTHER NIECES, COUSINS AND MANY FRIENDS. SHE WAS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER BROTHERS; PERRY HOWARD AND HIS WIFE HAZEL OF LYONS, KANSAS, CHARLES MANSFIELD "MANCE" HOWARD AND HIS WIFE ETTA (BUTTRAM) HOWARD OF CLAREMORE, OK. HER BROTHER MANCE HOWARD WAS ALSO HER TEACHER AT THE DUG HILL CHURCH/SCHOOL, WHERE HER DAUGHTER EVELYN ALSO ATTENDED; SHE WAS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HER SISTER PEARL HOWARD AND BROTHER AUGUSTUS "GUS" HOWARD. SHE ALSO HAD TWO STEP-BROTHERS PORT HOWARD AND ARTHUR HOWARD. SHE WAS FIRST MARRIED TO WILLIAM SAMPSON ROBBINS WHO DIED ON JULY 31, 1931 AND THEN MARRIED J.M. PUTMAN OF PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS IN 1936.

SHE LOVED TO SEW AND LOVED HER YARD AND FLOWER GARDENS. SHE WON SEVERAL AWARDS IN ROGERS FOR HER BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDENS.

AS A NOTE: MORE GENEALOGY INFORMATION AND PHOTOS CAN BE VIEWED ON LINE @ JOSEPH MARTIN PUTMAN.

A TRIBUTE TO OUR "WONDERFUL GRANDMOTHER."

HER HEADSTONE SHOWS: LYNNWOOD PUTMAN.

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