OWENS, BAILEY, SHERFIELD, BRATINA, BAYNE

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 05:44:20 :

Independent Journal
Saturday, September 30, 1978

ROSIE LEE OWENS

Funeral service for Rosie Lee Owens, 77, a former resident of Ross, was held Monday in Greenville, S.C.

Mrs. Owens, a former nurse’s aide at Ross General Hospital, died Sept. 22 in Greenville. She was the widow of Foster J. Owens, a retired employee of the Biltmore Dairy in Greenville.

Mrs. Owens, who retired from the hospital in 1963, had been a resident of Marin for 19 years before she moved to South Carolina. She was a native of Greenville.

Surviving are three daughters, Bertha Bailey of Greenville, Joyce Sherfield of Auburn, Wash., and Velma Bratina of Novato; a son, Freeman Owens of Tulsa; a brother, Allard Bayne of Burbank; 32 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.

Burial ws at Graceland Cemetery, Greenville.