Wise Co., TX., Obits: Owen Jerral Landers - 1922-2000
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               Owen Jerral Landers
               1922-2000

Service for Owen Jerral Landers, 78, mayor of Aurora, will be Monday, 
April 17, at 10:30 a.m. at Grace Baptist Church in Newark. Burial will 
follow at Bluebonnet Cemetery in Colleyville. Family visitation is 
Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m. at Christian-Hawkins Funeral Home in Boyd.
Landers died Thursday, April 13, 2000, after a long battle with cancer.

Born Aug. 14, 1922, to Oren and Dosia Landers in Sanger, he served in 
the Air Force during World War II. He moved to Hurst in 1955 and worked
as a maintenance supervisor for Bell Helicopter for 33 years. He was a 
member of Local Union #218. 

After retiring in 1983, he moved to Aurora where he was elected mayor. 
He held the office unopposed for more than 13 years until his death.
He was active in the Community Christmas Pals and helped rebuild Grace
Baptist Church in Newark.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Jerlene Landers; daughters Cheryl
Landers Collins and Cathy Landers Hale; his parents; his brothers, 
Herman, Lewis, Johnnie and Nolan and a sister, Janie Snow.

He is survived by a son, Jerral F. and wife Lynnette Landers of Hurst; 
grandsons, Cory Landers of Corpus Christi, Kelly Landers and Cody 
Landers of Hurst; granddaughters, Michelle Harris and Misty Collins of 
Hurst; his sisters, Marie Calvert of Fort Worth and Kay Whistler and 
husband Bob of Decatur; sisters-in-law Mae Landers of Denton, Colleen 
Landers of Fort Worth and numerous nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Tracy Whistler, Harold Landers, Donnie Landers, 
Tim Landers, John Green and Chuck Rinehart.

The family request that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Grace 
Baptist Church in Newark.
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