Willie Mae Owens

Cheyenne Star

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Willie Mae Owens will be conducted Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. from the First Assembly of God Church with T.D. Gifford and Lonnie DiSalvo officiating. Burial will follow in the Sayre-Doxey Cemetery under the direction of Martin Funeral Home.

Willie Mae Ownes was born July 8, 1921 at Cheyenne to Lannis F. and Johnnie Colleene Chance Sutton and died Sunday June 15, 1997 at the age of 75. She attended Needmore and Meridian Schools. After her marriage, the family moved about with oilfield work in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. She settled in the Elk City and Sayre Communities in 1969 where Willie did home health care. She also did janitorial care for several buildings and domestic cleaning and services for several families. She moved her home to Elk City in 1989 where she has lived since.

She was a member of the First Assembly of God.

Survivors include; her children, Juretta Pope and her husband, Lewis of Elk City; Loy Owens and his wife, Judy of Grand Parairie, Texas; Richard Owens and his wife, Sharon of Amarillo; Perry Owens and his wife, Renda of Lovington, New Mexico and Linda Owens Burkhalter of Elk City; 18 grandchildren; 29 great grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren; one sister, Lillie Faye Roundtree of Hobbs, New Mexico; two brothers, Dallas M. Sutton of Shattuck and Lanis E. Sutton of Oklahoma City and one sister-in-law, Betty Jo Sutton of Oklahoma City.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and one brother, Thomas Sutton. The family requests donations in Willie's name be made to Community Hospice.