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Accident kills Paris off-duty EMS worker

The Paris News

The Paris News reports that Joe Howard, 57, a 10-year paramedic with Paris EMS, died Sunday at Paris Regional Medical Center from injuries he received in a two-vehicle motorcycle crash at the intersection of FM 1497 and S.E. Loop 286.

Funeral services are pending with Bright-Holland Funeral Home. He is survived by his wife, Cathy, two daughters and many grandchildren.

“Joe Howard was a husband, father, grandfather, paramedic and friend,” said Kent Klinkerman, director of Paris EMS told The Paris News. “He loved his family, fishing and riding his motorcycle."

 
 

 
 
 
 

 

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