Custer County NeArchives Obituaries.....Read, Lilah Leola Owen April 18, 2009
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Lexington Clipper-Herald April 25, 2009
Lilah Leola Owen Read, 95, of Oconto died Saturday, April 18, 2009, in 
Hastings.
 
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. May 8 at the Oconto Community Cen-ter. 
Survivors include her daughter, Sherry (Prakash) Shrestha of Hazelton, British 
Columbia, Canada; son, Dennis (Pat) Read of Oconto; sister, Marjorie Scott; 
sister-in-law, Eunice Owen; grandchildren, Amy Ashbrook, Joshua Read, Shanti 
Shrestha, Christy Shrestha and Jenny Shrestha; four great-grandchildren and 
many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; sister, 
Velma Kranz; brother-in-law, Fred Kranz; brother, Dr. Bernard Owen and 
brothers-in-law, Floyd Gardiner and Henry Scott.

She was born Jan. 31, 1914, in Hastings to Fred and Agnes (Kirk) Owen.
Her mother had gone to Hastings to deliver her even though the family was 
living near Stapleton on a homestead. Her grandfather was the administrator at 
one of the hospitals in Hastings at the time. 

They settled in the Oconto area when she was about seven years old.

She went to the Tuckerville school until the 11th grade, then transferred to 
Oconto and graduated with the class of 1931. She took a two-year teaching 
program at Union College in Lincoln and was certified as a teacher in 1933.
On June 15, 1938, she married Roy Read. He died in 1980.

After her daughter Sherry was born, Lilah stayed at home but went back to 
teaching when Sherry was ready to start school. She started teaching at Oconto 
Public School in 1955. In 1959, she and Roy adopted a little four and a half 
year-old boy named Dennis. 

After many years of teaching, she went back to school and received a 
bachelor’s degree in teaching from Kearney State College in 1967. She enjoyed 
teaching and had many good memories of her students, who were like family to 
her.

She retired from teaching in 1979. She and Roy tried wintering in Arkansas but 
didn’t really care to be away from home. She lost her beloved companion of 
many years in 1980 and never remarried. 

She became a world traveler from Mexico to Alaska, Europe, Singapore, Nepal, 
India, Russia and Africa. Always one to keep up with the current events and 
new technology, she purchased a computer and taught herself to use it when she 
was 86 years old.

Age began to creep up on her, and she had to modify her activities. Always a 
lover of horseback riding, she longed to go riding again. At age 94, she 
managed to go for two horseback rides with Sherry. She even went sailing on 
Lake Michigan the same year. 

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