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Cemetery:           Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery
Name:               Terry Owen

Date Of Photograph: July 26, 2009
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Memorial Bench located in Section A

BELINDA YOULIN                TERRY OWEN
                      JULY 20, 1942 - OCT. 13, 1996

Inscription on left side of bench:

THIS IS A HOME WHERE CHILDREN LIVE

You may not find all things in place
Friend when you enter here.

But, we're a home where children live
We hold them very dear.

And you may find small fingerprints
And smudges on the wall.

When the kids are gone, we'll clean them up
Right now, we're playing ball.

For there's once thing of which we're sure,
These children are on loan.

One day they're always underfoot,
Next thing you know, they're gone.

That's when we'll have a well-kept house,
When they're off on their own.

Right now, this is where children live,
A loved and lived in home.

Thank you for being our children
Jim Thayer              Jason Jones
Rick Thayer             Jeff Jones
           Corey Thayer

Inscription on right side of bench:

WINGS IN THE WIND

On Wings he soared across the sky,
Sometimes quite low, other times high.
A life among the clouds was fun
At morning light, or setting sun.

In building his own, he took great pride,
To assure success in his long, long ride.
O've hill and vale and forest green,
and many sights no other has seen.

Five thousand miles with nary a map,
Except the reverse side of his lap.
He flew as did old pilots fly of chance
Who call it by "The seat of your pants."

Two wings, and time to search and find,
where river flow and highway winds.
Across the great land of the free;
I wish his passenger had been me.

I'll ne're forget that answer summer roar,
O'vehead in rolls and loops he did soar.
In celebrating his return to the air,
As if he wanted to stay up there.

Little did we know how soon the call,
Would come to fly over the wall.
Where clouds are silver, soft with love,
From the mighty sky pilot up above.

Some day he'll fly by once again,
For passengers to the golden plain. 
Where all may share without a tear,
Life in the skies of "Another Sphere." 


Inscription on back of bench:

                               THAYER

                          I'LL THINK OF YOU

It's lonely since you went away; You're on my mind each passing day.
I long to have you here awhile, to see your face--your happy smile.

To have you greet me at the door, or maybe hold my hand once more.
But then, if I could have a choice, I'd wish--right now--to hear your voice.

I think of you--our shared delights, of taking walks on summer nights.
I see you in the moon's bright beams and sense you in the rushing streams.

I know someday I will join you there, and then we'll laugh and hug and share.
We'll dance down Heaven's avenues; but till that day--I'll think of you.

                                           You're my Knight and Shining Armor
                                                       With My Love
                                                           XOXO
                                                                    Youlin

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