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James Thomas “Tom” Owen

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James Thomas “Tom” Owen

Birth
Georgia, USA
Death
8 Dec 1948 (aged 71)
Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA
Burial
Paris, Lamar County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block C
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THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, December 10, 1948, p. 10:

James Thomas (Tom) Owen, 71, who died in Corpus Christi Wednesday night, will be held here Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Brown-Roden Funeral Home, and burial will be made in Evergreen Cemetery, Perry A. Cotham, minister of Lamar Avenue Church of Christ, will officiate, and pallbearers will be John Griffis, Ernest Merritt, Haralson Nelms, Jim Arrington, Myron Pierce and Okla Mitchell.

Mr. Owen, who made his home here with a daughter, Mrs. Bill Read, 1825 Neathery St., had been visiting his three sons in Corpus Christi the past month, and was found dead in bed after a heart attack at the home of James T. Owen, Jr.

Other children surviving are Mrs. Carl Emerson, Paris; Mrs. W. T. Carson, Blossom; Travis Owen, Fort Worth; Bill Owen and Leo Owen, Corpus Christi; 15 grandchildren and these brothers and sisters; Clarence Owen, Arthur Owen and Mrs. Ola Beets, all of Hope, Ark., and Mrs. Julia Gordon, Watonga, Okla.

James Thomas Owen, a retired carpenter, was born in Georgia, April 12, 1877, and he married Miss Mamie Spaulding, who died here July 1, 1947. He was a member of the Church of Christ and the Woodmen of the World.

Carole Curry
THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, December 10, 1948, p. 10:

James Thomas (Tom) Owen, 71, who died in Corpus Christi Wednesday night, will be held here Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Brown-Roden Funeral Home, and burial will be made in Evergreen Cemetery, Perry A. Cotham, minister of Lamar Avenue Church of Christ, will officiate, and pallbearers will be John Griffis, Ernest Merritt, Haralson Nelms, Jim Arrington, Myron Pierce and Okla Mitchell.

Mr. Owen, who made his home here with a daughter, Mrs. Bill Read, 1825 Neathery St., had been visiting his three sons in Corpus Christi the past month, and was found dead in bed after a heart attack at the home of James T. Owen, Jr.

Other children surviving are Mrs. Carl Emerson, Paris; Mrs. W. T. Carson, Blossom; Travis Owen, Fort Worth; Bill Owen and Leo Owen, Corpus Christi; 15 grandchildren and these brothers and sisters; Clarence Owen, Arthur Owen and Mrs. Ola Beets, all of Hope, Ark., and Mrs. Julia Gordon, Watonga, Okla.

James Thomas Owen, a retired carpenter, was born in Georgia, April 12, 1877, and he married Miss Mamie Spaulding, who died here July 1, 1947. He was a member of the Church of Christ and the Woodmen of the World.

Carole Curry


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