Leaders at Cheshire East Council are paying tribute to a councillor who sadly passed away on Monday (April 18).
Betty Howell, 62, who lived at Railbrook Court, Railway Street, Crewe, had served as a councillor since 1999. She was a member for the Crewe South ward on Cheshire East.
Cllr Howell was born in Manchester in 1948 and moved to Crewe at the age of 29. She had worked as a teacher at King’s Grove High School, Crewe.
Erika Wenzel, Chief Executive at Cheshire East, said: “It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Councillor Betty Howell.
“Cllr Howell was first elected to the former Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council in May 1999.
“Our thoughts are with her family at this difficult time. We will announce any funeral details as they become known.”
Cllr Howell sat on the Southern Planning Committee on Cheshire East and had been a member of the development control committee since her election to Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council.
In 2003/2004, she was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat party and a year earlier had been a governor at King’s Grove.
Cllr Howell’s funeral will take place on Tuesday, May 3 at 2pm at Crewe Crematorium.
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