Kathryn "Kitty" Carson Howard

Kathryn “Kitty” Carson Howard passed away on 10/13/26 after a brief illness. She was living at Pruitt Health Ridgeway.

She was preceded in death by her husband James “Jim” Howard of Blythewood, SC; her parents, Sgt. Maj. John H. Carson and Helen Fiesel Carson of Jacksonville, NC; her brother John J. Carson, of Greenville, NC; and her sister, Mary Beth Carson of Columbia, SC. Left to mourn her passing are nephews David O’Neal of North Carolina and John Lawrence Carson of Virginia, and many friends including Delores Pluto of Oklahoma City, Ginny Reed of Blythewood, and Pat and Ronnie Roche of Columbia.

Kitty graduated from Appalachian State University with a B.S. in English. After teaching in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools for three years, she attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia and earned a Master of Mass Communications degree.

She was an active public relations and advertising executive in Columbia, having worked at Columbia College, the SC Education Association, First National Bank, and State Printing Company. She had her own business, Carson Creative and Associates from 1987 to 1992. She joined Newman, Saylor, and Gregory in 1992 and headed their direct marketing division. In 2003, Kitty returned to teaching school in Richland School District 1 and later was a substitute teacher for Richland County 2 Schools.

The momentous change in her life happened in 2003 when she met the love of her life, James “Jim” Howard of Blythewood, SC. They spent 15 happy hears together until his untimely death in 2018.

Remembrances can be made to the Richland County Animal Shelter and to Unity of the Midlands.