Howard "Poochie" Fautt

Howard Lee Ellis "Poochie" Fautt, Sr., 75, retired truck driver for Columbia Rock Products and resident of Conant Street, died Thursday, April 4, 2013 at Maury Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3:00 P.M. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Randy Kersey officiating. Burial will follow in Polk Memorial Gardens. The family will visit with friends Saturday after 4:00 P.M. at the funeral home. Condolences may be offered online at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the biological son of the late Lee Allen Fautt and Lou Ella Whitehead Fautt and was reared by the late Thomas Ellis and Eugenia Robinette Ellis. Mr. Fautt served in the Tennessee National Guard and was a volunteer deputy with the Maury County Sheriff's Department Civil Defense. He was a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He was a member of Philippi Church of Christ. Survivors include his wife whom he married February 7, 1959, Margie Ann LeMay Fautt of Columbia; daughters, Glenda Mae (Rodney) Thomas of Linden; Elizabeth Ann Fautt, Wanda Gail (Mark) Pitts, and Laurie Ann Day, all of Columbia; son, Howard Lee Fautt, Jr. of Columbia; sisters, Dorothy Reeves of Jacksonville, Arkansas; Una Mae Steward and Dee Dee Ellis, both of Columbia; Darlene (Billy) Floyd of Horn Lake, Mississippi; brothers, Tommy (Vickie) Ellis and Billy Jim Ellis, both of Columbia; grandson, Anthony George; granddaughter, Tiffany Ann Thomas; great grandson, Gabriel Lee Leonard; and several nieces and nephews, including "his beautiful niece", Margaret Fay Brooks. He was preceded in death by brothers, James Fautt, Cordell Fautt; sister, Shirley Ann McCandless, and his stepmother, Janie Ellis. Active pallbearers will be Tommy Ellis, Billy Ellis, Eddie Brooks, Mark Pitts, Kenneth Pitts, and Rodney Thomas. Honorary pallbearers will be Ashley Brown, Donald Sharp, Chad Black and the Columbia Central High School Class of 1957.