Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Owen, Edith July 16, 1942
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, July 24, 1942  No. 4
RITES HELD FOR EDITH OWEN, 17
Edith Owen, attractive 17-year-old student of Schley County High School, died 
at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta last Thursday night after a three weeks 
illness of leukemia.  The daughter Mr. and Mrs. I.B. Owen, of Hopewell 
community, Miss Owen was a tenth grade student the past term.  Supt. E.M. 
Palmer paid high tribute to her abilities.  The interest she took in her work 
and her spirit of cooperation in school affairs.  Funeral services were held 
at Ebenezer Baptist church Saturday morning at 11 o'clock with the Rev. H.G. 
Fowler and the Rev. Roy J. Bond, officiating.  Burial was in the church 
cemetery.  Surviving besides her parents, are three sisters, Miss Ruby Lee 
Owen, Miss Katie Lou Owen and Mrs. James E. Dalgo, all of Atlanta; three 
brothers, Hilton Eugene Owen, Fort McClellan, Ala.; Charles Rodolph and Robert 
Owen, both of Schley county.  Classmates served as pallbearers.  They were 
James William Perry, Calvin Owen, Robert Hilton, Hugh Tondee, Jack Tondee and 
Warren Battle.


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