Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Owens, Texie June 11, 1928
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Ashland Progress
The sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. S. W. Owens came over the wires to me 
a few days ago and as the message was being relayed over the telephone there 
came a vision of one who had used every energy to advance the cause of 
righteousness in her community. As a young Circuit Rider. I shall never forget 
my first visit to Mount Moriah Church and to the Bluff Springs community. It was 
a cold December day and a young preacher, and his wife drove a borrowed horse 
some twenty miles before finding the church. It was long past the preaching 
hour, but sister Owens and a group of faithful men and women were holding a 
service until the young preacher arrived. I shall never forget the smile on her 
face, the intense blue of her eye and the cordial grasp of her hand as she 
welcomed her young pastor. From that day, 25 years ago, until the present I have 
known, admired, loved and revered Mrs. Owens as one of God's saints on earth. 
Her devotion to the cause of the church, her faithfulness in the community, her 
espousal of every good cause, her loyalty to her home, her husband and her 
children, her deep piety and her masterful sense of justice made her the 
combination of a tender mother with the zeal and power of a crusader. Mrs. Owens 
inherited from her father and mother a disposition of deep piety and 
righteousness. She developed early in life a marvelous physique and became a 
towering and beautiful personality. These splendid resources of mind and body 
she used constantly and thereby developed them to a high state of efficiency. 
She was born a leader. No one ever looked into her eyes, or heard the tone of 
her voice, or saw the commanding grace of her walk but felt that she was born a 
leader. To try to enumerate her virtues and to tell of the marvelous good which 
she did in community, Missionary Society and church activities would simply be 
to call the roll, of all the good organizations that existed in her community in 
her day. Hers has been the ideal life. Beautiful, enthusiastic and attractive in 
youth; stable, energetic, forceful in middle life; influential, Godly and golden 
in old age, her passing makes her community poorer. Her coronation makes Heaven 
richer. WILLIS A. SUTTON.

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