KATHRYN Corine (KEATING) OWEN
Marriages
WALTER F. OWEN - August 30, 1930
in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise - December 21, 1995
Kathryn Corine Owen of New Castle, formerly of Red Cliff, died Dec. 17 in Grand Junction of natural causes. She was 80.
Mrs. Owen was born July 24, 1915 in Trinidad, Colo., to Patrick J. and Jenny (Rhodes) Keating. She spent her childhood in Red Cliff and graduated from Red Cliff High School. She married Walter F. Owen Aug. 30, 1930 in Glenwood Springs and worked over the years in Eagle County as a special education teacher and postal clerk and Town Clerk of Red Cliff.
She was also a member of the Eagle County Senior Citizen Board and served on the Red Cliff Library Board. She was involved as a local Republican Committee member. She enjoyed singing and appreciated music and found helping others in her community to be fulfilling.
Survivors include her husband, Walter Owen of Grand Junction; son Jack (Maryann) Owen of Leadville; daughters Joyce and Jesse Myers of New Castle; brothers Tom Keating of Phoenix, Ariz., and Bill Keating of Simi Valley, Calif.; numerous loving nieces and nephews; 10 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one son, Walter J. Owen; two sisters, Janice Bellows and Patsy Crowley; and a grandson, Jack Owen.
A traditional funeral and graveside service will be held Thursday, Dec. 21 at the Baptist Church of Garfield County, with Pastor James Legg officiating. Burial will be at Divide Creek Cemetery in Divide Creek, Colo. Visitation will be 1-7 p.m., at Sowder Funeral Home, 425 W. 3rd St., Rifle.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 2B - December 19, 1995
