OWENS, JAMES L. "JIM" - Izard County, Arkansas | JAMES L. "JIM" OWENS - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

James L. "Jim" OWENS

Roselawn (at Calico Rock) Cemetery
Izard County,
Arkansas

January 25, 1885--May 23, 1949
Married Augusta Vanatter, September 13, 1903.

Calico Rock Progress, Calico Rock, Arkansas, May 27, 1949:

James L. Owens Dies Here Monday Morning

James L. Owens, 65, native of this section, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Helen Drennan, in East Calico Rock, Monday morning, May 23, following a brief illness.

Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Walter Hutson of Mountain Home, were held Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, burial being in Rose Lawn Cemetery here. The Roller Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Owens was born a few miles east of Calico Rock and practically all his life was spent in this county. In 1903 he was married to Miss Augusta Vanatter.

Surviving, are his wife; four sons, Henry, Japeth, Eugene and Uyless Owens, of Calico Rock; six daughters, Mrs. Mary Griggs of Dolph, Mrs. Fairy Smithson, Mrs. Lillian Lively, Mrs. Lorine Blankenship and Mrs. Helen Drennan, of Calico Rock and Mrs. Maxine Lively of Forty Four; one brother, Charles of Reeves, Mo., one sister, Mrs. Levie Eddleman of Tulsa, Okla.; 22 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)

Contributed on 9/26/10 by maxparnell
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Submitted: 9/26/10 • Approved: 9/27/10 • Last Updated: 8/15/12 • R382782-G0-S3

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