Craig Mitchell McDowell

Celebration of Life Services for Craig Mitchell McDowell, 26, of Kempner will be 11 am Tuesday, July 7, 2015 in the Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home Chapel in Copperas Cove. Burial will follow in the Killeen City Cemetery.

Mr. McDowell passed away Wednesday evening, July 1, 2015 in Midland, Texas.

Craig was born July 9, 1988 in Temple to Robert Craig and Nancy Rhetta Heathcott McDowell. He graduated from Lampasas High School in 2006 where he enjoyed playing football and power lifting sports. He worked in Killeen at HEB after graduating high school and then with Ace Hardware in Lampasas. He was currently employed with Selman & Associates of Midland.

He was preceded in death by maternal grandparents, Dewey and Margaret Heathcott and paternal grandfather, James H. McDowell.

He is survived by his parents, Robert C. and Nancy McDowell of Kempner; two brothers, Heath and Daniel Reese McDowell, both of Kempner; grandmothers, Janice McDowell of Cleveland, Ohio and Rina McDowell of Texarkana, Texas; an Uncle, Rick (and B.J.) Heathcott and Aunt Sandra Millner of Cleveland, Aunt Muriel Sluder of Texarkana, TX and Aunt Daniela Hansen of Seattle, Washington, and numerous cousins and friends.

Memorial donations are being accepted at http://gofundme.com/yd2zck.

Visitation will be Monday evening from 6 to 8 pm in the funeral home.

Words of comfort may be made to the family at www.CrawfordBowers.org