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Letha Iona <I>Shoemaker</I> Owen

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Letha Iona Shoemaker Owen

Birth
Wolcott, White County, Indiana, USA
Death
17 May 1993 (aged 91)
Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Burial
West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Apostle St. Mark, Lot 187, Grave A
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Letha Iona Shoemaker was first married to Richard Nightingale, with whom she had a daughter, Thelma "Sammy" Nightingale Williams; they divorced.
--Indiana Marriages; Indiana Death Certificates, 1899-2011
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Letha Iona Shoemaker Owen, 91, died at 8:25 PM Monday, May 17, 1993, in Lafayette Home Hospital. Born May 17, 1902, at Wolcott, she was raised there and graduated from Wolcott High School. On Nov. 23, 1932, she married Frank E. Owen at Monticello; he died Aug. 3, 1991.

Mrs. Owen came to Lafayette in 1932 and was a nurse at Indiana Veterans Home and Ross Sanatorium. She also had been a housemother at St. Elizabeth School of Nursing. She was a member of Congress United Methodist Church, We Will Sunday school class, Martha Circle, Order of Eastern Star Hope Chapter 5, Merou Grotto Auxiliary, and Lafayette Homemakers Club.

Surviving are a daughter, Thelma (Mrs. Kenneth) Williams; a stepson, Robert Owen, both of Lafayette; a brother, John Shoemaker of Monticello; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
--Lafayette Journal & Courier - Wed 5/19/1993, page 16
Letha Iona Shoemaker was first married to Richard Nightingale, with whom she had a daughter, Thelma "Sammy" Nightingale Williams; they divorced.
--Indiana Marriages; Indiana Death Certificates, 1899-2011
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Letha Iona Shoemaker Owen, 91, died at 8:25 PM Monday, May 17, 1993, in Lafayette Home Hospital. Born May 17, 1902, at Wolcott, she was raised there and graduated from Wolcott High School. On Nov. 23, 1932, she married Frank E. Owen at Monticello; he died Aug. 3, 1991.

Mrs. Owen came to Lafayette in 1932 and was a nurse at Indiana Veterans Home and Ross Sanatorium. She also had been a housemother at St. Elizabeth School of Nursing. She was a member of Congress United Methodist Church, We Will Sunday school class, Martha Circle, Order of Eastern Star Hope Chapter 5, Merou Grotto Auxiliary, and Lafayette Homemakers Club.

Surviving are a daughter, Thelma (Mrs. Kenneth) Williams; a stepson, Robert Owen, both of Lafayette; a brother, John Shoemaker of Monticello; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
--Lafayette Journal & Courier - Wed 5/19/1993, page 16

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  • Created by: Vonda J Dowell
  • Added: May 5, 2012
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89619987/letha_iona-owen: accessed ), memorial page for Letha Iona Shoemaker Owen (17 May 1902–17 May 1993), Find a Grave Memorial ID 89619987, citing Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by Vonda J Dowell (contributor 46922561).