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Obituary
Fletcher
Comanche County, Oklahoma
Submitted by: Sandi Carter

© Duncan Banner
Monday, December 24, 2007

L. A. "Jack" Owen

Corum - L. A. "Jack" Owen, 88, of Corum, departed this life Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007, in Lawton.

Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Corum Baptist Church, with the Rev. Bruce Humphries officiating. Burial will be in Fletcher, Okla Cemetery under direction of Hart-Wyatt Funeral Home of Walters.

Jack was born July 3, 1919, in Fletcher, to Leonard Anderson Sr. and Eva Belle Skinner Owen. He grew up in Fletcher, graduating from high school in 1937. He attended Cameron College until he was injured on a job and could no longer play football.

He moved to Oklahoma City, where he went to barber school and soon met Lottie while attending a Baptist church. They married Nov. 9, 1940, in Oklahoma City, and shortly thereafter he joined the U.S. Army, serving honorably in North Africa and Italy during World War II.

Upon returning home from the war, he opened a barber shop in Cyril and attended Cameron once again, before finishing his bachelor of science degree in chemistry and mathematics at Central State in Edmond.

He moved his family to Arnett, where he taught until receiving his master's degree in school administration from the University of Oklahoma. He then served as school superintendent at Arnett and later at Grandfield.

He later went to work at Fort Sill as fire inspector and retired as fire chief in 1978.

He and his wife moved from Lawton to Waurika Lake in 1980.

He was a member of Corum Baptist Church and Masonic Lodge No. 41 in Comanche.

Survivors include a son, Leonard A. Owen III of Dallas, Texas; three daughters, Pam Godwin of Warsaw, N.C., Pat Owen of Temple, and Lori Kissick and husband Neil of North Richland Hills, Texas; a sister-in-law, Audelle Owen of Comanche; a granddaughter, Dr. Meredith Owen Godwin, MD, of Greenville, N.C.; and other relatives and many friends.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Lottie Mae, in 2004; and two brothers, Eddie J. Owen and Donald J. Owen.

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