Harmon Co. OK Obit for Floye Bernice (Hasley) Owen ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/ For the Harmon County, OK. archives project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmonobits.html 5/05/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives. ************************************************************ Floye Bernice Owen, 88, died Monday at Southwest Integris Hospital in Oklahoma City. Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church in Tipton. Burial will follow at the Tipton Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Stewart Funeral Service. She was born Jan. 4, 1914 in Tipton to William T. and Orpha Easley Hasley. She attended Tipton High School. She married Mitchell Laird Oct. 18, 1930 in Tipton and was widowed in 1972. She later married Percy Owen and was widowed in 1991. She was former manager of the TG&Y store in Tipton and later the fabric department manager for J.C. Penney's in Norman. She then went to work for the Morren's Custom Draperies for about three years. She was a member of the Berry Road Baptist Church in Norman. She was also a past matron for the Eastern Star in Tipton, a past high priestess and chaplain of the Moose Lodge in Norman. Her special interests were her family, sewing, choir and sports. She is survived by three daughters, Janet Yeager of Midwest City, Carol Parks and husband Dean of Edmond and Helen Honsinger and husband Dean of Kingman, Ariz.; two sons, David Laird of Austin, Texas and Gary Laird and wife Joreta of Hollis; brother Robert Hasley of Tipton; sister Epha Newman of Fort Worth; 11 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Mitchell Laird, husband Percy Owen, six sisters, two brothers, one grandson and two granddaughters.