Obituaries:  Mrs. Mabel Trotti Owers, Sabine, Vernon Parish       O-620
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 23, 1970
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Mabel Trotti Owers

  Mrs. Mabel Trotti Owers, 40, of Hornbeck, was fatally wounded,
early morning, July 14, by a blast from a shotgun that was
thought to be empty.

  Her 16 year old son, Howard Jerome Owers, who had just finished
lunch, was cleaning the gun when it discharged. Mrs. Owers was
struck in the right side of her head. Mr. Owers, Howard, and a
nine year old daughter, Karen, were home.

  A neighbor heard the shot and the children came screaming up the
hill, and called officers and an ambulance. Mrs. Owers was taken
to a hospital in Alexandria where she died.

  Funeral services were held at 10 a.m., July 17, in the Hixson
Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Wayne Read officiated. Burial was
in Oak Grove Cemetery, at Hornbeck.

  Survivors include her husband, Louis Owers of Hornbeck; two
sons, Louis R. R. Owers of Houston, Tex., and Howard Jerome Owers
of Hornbeck; four daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Ross of Alton,
Ill., and Linda Owers, Marilyn Owers, and Karen Owers, all of
Hornbeck; two brothers, Luther Trotti of Mansfield; and one
sister, Mrs. Crystol Vincent of Silsbee, Tex.