Tazewell County, Virginia, Obituaries:  Ella H. Owens

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Bristol Herald Courier
Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Ella H. Owens

OAKWOOD, Va. -- Ella Lucinda Hagerman Owens, 68 years of age, went to be with
the Lord Monday, March 17, 2003, at Kindred Hospital, Greensboro, N.C. Born in
McDowell County, W.Va., Dec. 5, 1934, the daughter of the late John B. Hagerman
and Ella Lucinda Vandyke Hagerman, she was a member of the Garden Creek Church
of Christ, her hobbies included quilting, needle work and crocheting. She was a
loving wife, mother, grandmother and was a homemaker. 

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Virgil
Owens in May, 1992; one daughter, Abigail "Bunny" Colley, November, 2000; and
one brother, Charlie Hagerman.

She is survived by one son, Wesley Owens and special daughter-in-law, Shirley
Owens of Oakwood; special son-in-law, Gary Colley of Oakwood; one sister, Mrs.
Robert (Geneva) Cuthertson of Oakwood; one brother, Howard Wesley (Johnny)
Hagerman and wife Cassie of Elkhorn City, Ky.; one sister-in-law, Net Hagerman
of Tazewell, Va.; and two grandchildren, John Owens and wife Sarah of Lynchburg,
Va., and Evangelist Rusty Owens of Oakwood. She is also survived by special
friends, Sara and Matt Horne, Sonya Young, Brandon Helton, Logan Young and Tyler
Young; and a host of friends and neighbors.

Funeral services will be conducted Friday, March 21, 2003, at 1 p.m. at the
Shortridge-Ramey Funeral Home Chapel, Grundy, with Evangelist Hobert Kennedy,
Evangelist Jim Hill, Evangelist Bob Smith and Evangelist Bill Boyd officiating.
Burial will follow in the Greenhills Memory Gardens at Claypool Hill, Va.

Active pallbearers will be nephews and friends. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr.
Larry Mitchell, 2nd floor nursing staff at Clinch Valley Medical Center, nursing
staff of Kindred Hospital in Greensboro, N.C., men of the Garden Creek Church of
Christ, Richard Vandyke, Arthur and JoAnn Whitt, Betty Horn, Shirley Horn, Max
Willard, Jerry Cox and other members of the Oakwood Rescue Squad and members of
the Love Joy Home Medical.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Thursday
evening with services at 7 p.m.

The family of Ella Lucinda Hagerman Owens is being served by Shortridge-Ramey
Funeral Home of Grundy.