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Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 18, 1965

Walter L. Owens

Funeral Services For W.L. Owens Are Held Tuesday

Funeral services were held for Walter Lee Owens at 10 a.m. Tuesday, August 17, in the Nazarene church, Carnegie. Sam Isobel, presided, with Rev. Bob Williams, pastor of the Nazarene church, assisting. The Pitcher Funeral Home was in charge of burial at the Carnegie cemetery.

Mr. Owen died Sunday, August 15, in the Carnegie hospital at the age of 77 years and five months. He was born February 18, 1888, in Polk county, Arkansas.

He was married to Della May Bales December 28, 1910 at Mena, Arkansas. They had three children. One son, Cleburn, preceded him in death in 1935.

Survivors are his wife, Della Mae, a son, W.L. Jr., and daughter, Mrs. Naomi Osburn, Mountain View, two brothers, Lawrence, Mena, Arkansas, and Clarence, Riverside, California, and seven grandchildren.


Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, October 22, 1975

Della M. [Bales] Owens

Owens Rites Held Friday

Funeral services for Mrs. Della Owens, 86, a resident of Silvercrest Manor in Anadarko, and formerly of Carnegie, were held at 2:30 last Friday at the local Church of the Nazarene. She died last Tuesday at the rest home. Rev. Bob Williams, pastor, officiated and burial was in Fort Cobb Cemetery under the direction of Pitcher Funeral Home.

Mrs. Owens was born November 20, 1888, in Jones county, Tex.

She moved to Arkansas from Texas at the age of 10, and married W.L. Owens Dec. 28, 1910, at Potter, Ark. He died in 1965. Mrs. Owens moved to Seminole county in the early 1920's, and to Carnegie in 1933. She and her husband operated a station and grocery store from 1937 until his death.

Mrs. Owens was a member of the Nazarene church.

Survivors include one son, Walter Lee Owens, Jr. of Carnegie; one daughter, Mrs. Naomi Ruth Osburn, of Guthrie, Marvin of Moore, Galen and Mrs. Charlene Lindsey, Norman, June Leach and Stephen Seigrist of Carnegie; six great-grandchildren.

Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, June 21, 1939

Lillie Owens

Mrs. Floyd Owens Is Buried Wednesday

Funeral services were held at the Fort Cobb Baptist church at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Floyd Owens, 39, whose home was eight miles east of Carnegie. Mrs. Owens died at Oklahoma early Monday night. She had been ill since February, it is said.

R.E. Harvey of the Harvey funeral home conducted the service and burial was made in the Oak Grove cemetery.

Besides her husband other survivors are four young children, two sons and two little daughters.

Obituary
Fort Cobb/Oak Grove Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Lillian Cotten

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, October 18, 1933

Cleburn C. Owens

Cleburne C. Owens Victim Of Cancer

Funeral services for Cleburne C. Owens, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Owens who live near the Oak Grove school house seven miles east of Carnegie, were held at the residence at 3 o'clock Tuesday and interment was made in the Fort Cobb cemetery. T.R. Eppler of Carnegie preached the sermon ad was assisted in the service of Olen Cossey. The Pitcher Funeral Home had charge of the arrangements. Cleburne had been ill more than a year, a victim of cancer.

Cleburne C. Owens was born Dec. 10, 1911 at Mena, Ark., died Oct. 17, 1933, aged 21 years, 10 months and 7 days. His parents moved to Oklahoma when he was two years old. They located at Oak Grove in 1928.

Cleburne was converted and sanctified at the age of 14, and later united with the Nazarene church at Holdenville. He led a consistent Christian life, and was never known to step from the path of righteousness. He has been physically handicapped thru-out his life, but took worse more than a year ago.

His parents, one sister, Naomi Ruth; one brother, W. L. Junior; a grandmother, Mrs. Sally Owens, Coalgate, and other relatives survive him.

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