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Submitted: 1/30/13 • Approved: 2/1/13 • Last Updated: 2/4/13 • R823838-G823837-S3
June 20 1848 - Sept 14 1928
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, September 20, 1928
OWENS, Margaret Amelia CARSE - Mrs. R.P. Owens, one of the oldest and best loved women of our city, died Friday morning in her eightieth year at her home, corner of Sixth and Cypress streets, after a brief illness. She was confined to her room but a very short time, not more than a day or two, and the end of a long and useful life came to a close with a suddenness that almost stunned the many friends and relatives. Funeral services were held at the Owens home Saturday afternoon at three o'clock and were conducted by the Rev. Robt. L. King, pastor of the Presbyterian church of which Mrs. Owens had long been a faithful and active member. Burial was in the city cemetery by the side of her husband, Robert Perry Owens, who died November 16, 1919. Margaret Amelia Carse was born in Princeton, Illinois June 20, 1848 and died September 14th at the age of eighty years, two months and twenty-four days. The family lived in Memphis for a number of years and then moved to St. Louis where she met and married R.P. Owens November 5, 1873. Four children were born to this union, a son and daughter both dying in infancy. She is survived by two sons, Frank Owens of the Rogers postoffice force, and A.E. Owens, city recorder. Also by two sisters, Mrs. Lina Phelps of Fort Scott, Kansas who had spent the summer with her and was with her when she died, and Mrs. L.E. Atchison of Steamboat Rock, Colorado. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Allie Carse of Muskogee, was also here. Mrs. Owens is also survived by five grandchildren. The family lived in St. Louis until 1890 when they came to Rogers, building the residence on South Sixth within the following year, and where they have lived ever since. Mr. Owens was a leader in all civic affairs in Rogers, serving as mayor, on the city council, the school board, and for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of Rogers Academy. And Mrs. Owens, while never a club woman, was one of the most active and untiring members of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. Few members were more regular in their attendance and advancing years failed to dampen her enthusiasm for her church and her insistence to be classed among the actual workers. "Mother Owens," as she was known to her friends and the entire neighborhood, was a friend to everyone in need of actual aid or sympathy. She was a friend of old and young, rich and poor - and Rogers has never known a woman more democratic in her acquaintances. Truly, if the writer has ever known a person deserving of the epitaph, "She went about doing good," Mother Owens fully earned it. After forty years of service in one neighborhood her death has left a vacancy that can never be filled.
Contributed on 1/30/13 by wfields55
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