STEPHENS COUNTY, GA - OBITS Dewitt Owen ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: David Styles DeWitt Owen Obituary Died March 29, 1925 From: Toccoa Record, Toccoa, Georgia, March 31, 1925 Headline: Mr. De. W. Owen Is Buried at Toccoa Mr. De. W. Owen, former representative in the Georgia legislature from Stephens count, died at his home here Sunday afternoon, after a lingering illness of four or five years. He was a well-known attorney in Toccoa, and a justice of the peace, but was forced to retire from active practice two years ago on account of ill health. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and the local camp of the Woodmen of the World, and had a host of friends in the city and county. Mr. Owen was a son of the late Captain John W. Owen, of Toccoa, and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dinah Davis Owen, and two sons De. W. Jr., and Bernard, and three daughters, Misses Lucille, Sarah, and Agnes; his mother, Mrs. J.W. Owen, of Toccoa; two brothers, Willard, of Atlanta; and Winston, of Toccoa; five sisters, Mrs. W. J. Rothell, Mrs. E. S. Gilmer, Misses Lorena and Annie Owen, of Toccoa, and Mrs. C.W. Hood, of Commerce. Funeral Services will be conducted from the home Monday afternoon. Interment was in the Toccoa cemetery.