Obit: Owens, Glenn (1900 – 1976)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Owens, Kringle, McFarlin, Hale, Luraas, Radley

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 18 Feb 1976

Owens, Glenn (3 Mar 1900 – 12 Feb 1976)

Glenn Owens, 75, a resident of the Village of Withee for the past five years, passed away at 1 a.m. Thursday, February 12, 1976 at the Veterans Hospital at Tomah.

Funeral services were conducted from the Kraut-Maurina Funeral Home, Owen, at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, February 14. The Rev. Lester Kringle, pastor of the Alliance Church, Owen, officiated, with burial being made at Riverside Cemetery, where military rites were conducted by the Van Huizen-Fritz American Legion Post 123 of Owen.

Glenn Owens was born March 3, 1900 at Dodgeville, Wisconsin. He was a graduate of that school system, and later attended the University of Wisconsin. He then accepted a position with the federal government as an accountant and lived in Milwaukee until 1940. The next 20 years he and his wife, the former Margaret McFarlin, whom he married May 30, 1926 at Madison, resided at Knapp, Wisconsin. In 1960 they left Knapp, moving to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where they resided until 1970, when they retired to Withee.

Mr. Owens had the distinction of having served in both World War I and World War II. He, too, was quite a historian. In the family treasures is a “family tree” he compiled: a large volume complete in detail that traces his family ancestors back to the Mayflower.

Surviving are his wife, Withee; a daughter, Mrs. Gordon (Joan) Hale, Madison; two brothers, Pierce Owens Sr., and Williams Owens, Withee; two sisters, Mrs. Lurene Luraas, and Mrs. Orville (Marie) Radley, Withee; and three grandchildren.