OWEN, LEVI
Ashland Gazette 1-27-1943
Funeral Service is Held for Levi Owen

" Funeral services for Levi Owen were held Tuesday forenoon at the Kremer Funeral 
Home at Fullerton, Nebraska, conducted by the Rev. Carpenter of the Methodist 
Church and the services were held at the Marcy Chapel in Ashland at 2:30 p.m., 
conducted by Rev. H. A. Taylor. Interment was in the Ashland Cemetery. Mr. Owen 
lived for the past seven years with his son, W. L. Owen, of that city.

Relatives attending from other parts of the state were Mr. & Mrs. Lester Owen & 
daughter of Grand Island, Nebraska; Charles Curitan Owen and Walter Owen of 
Chappel, Nebraska, Thomas Edwin Owen of Burwell, Nebraska & Bryan Wald Owen 
of Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Levi Owen was born in Freeport, Illinois on April 23, 1852 
and passed out of this life on January 22, 1943. He was united in marriage to Edna 
Ann Wald on December 24, 1872. His wife preceded him in death 24 years. 

To this union were born eight children, seven of whom survive. Charles Curitan 
Owen, Chappel; Franklin Marion, Portland, Oregon; Thomas Edwin, Burwell; 
Willie Lee, Fullerton; Mabel Victoria Nye, Hollywood, California; John P., 
Portland, Oregon and Bryan Wald Owen, Scottsbluff. Other survivors include 
two brothers, Tom & Rosa Owen of Memphis and Mrs. Herman Harrison 
of Los Angeles, California; also 36 grandchildren and 45 great-grandchildren.

Mr. Owen moved to Montgomery City, Missouri with his parents in about 1865. 
Moving from there to Nebraska in 1875, where he spent the remainder of his life. 
A true pioneer settling at Memphis where he lived for 22 years, moving from there 
to Burwell, Nebraska and in 1915 he moved to York, where his beloved wife 
preceded him in death. 

Living with with his children at various places in Nebraska, he went to live in 1935 
for the remainder of his life on earth, with his son W. L. Owen of Fullerton, Nebraska. 
If every friend could bring a flower, he would tonight be beneath an embankment of 
flowers. A sturdy pioneer with a true democratic spirit believing that right makes 
might and wrong was always wrong. A faithful father, with the greatest respect 
for the rights of his fellow men. He left this earth in patient sleep. As he would 
have those who survive to believe in."