FLORENCE (HURBOUGH) OWENS

Daughter of William L. Hurbough and Mary Melissa DeWeese Hurbaugh Osborn. (Thanks to Don Sturm for providing the correct name of her mother. William L. Hurbough was married twice.)

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Funeral Rites
Arranged For
Mrs. Owens

Funeral services for Mrs. Florence Owens, 79, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. Clara Belle Seward, 4815 Unitersity, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Weiland-Merritt Funeral Chapel, 2909 Live Oak. The Rev Thomas Bohannan, pastor of the Inwood Baptist Church, will officiate and burial will be in Restland Memorial Park.

Mrs. Owens died Thursday in a Dallas hospital.

She was born January 28, 1873 near Royse City, Rockwall-Collin County, and had lived for several years in Anson, Jones County. She moved to Dallas about ten years ago.

Surviving are a son L. H. Owens of Canyon, Randall County; four daughters, Mrs. E. T. Simpson of McKinney, Mrs. L. C. Butler of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Mrs. S. C. Evans and Mrs. Clara Belle Seward, both of Dallas; two brothers, Mat Owens [sic] of Vernon and J. B. Owens [sic] of Lubbock; fifteen grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Simpson, Rosamond, Evans, and Seward grandson.

Dallas Morning News
September 27, 1952
Transcribed by Carol Moore.

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Mrs. Florence Owens, 4815 W. University, died Thursday. Survived by son, L. H. Owens; four daughters, Mrs. E. T. Simpson, Mrs. L C. Butler, Mrs. S. C. Evans, Mrs. Clara Belle Seward; two brothers, Mat Osborn and J. B. Osborn; fifteen grandchildren; twenty great-grandchildren. Services 2 p.m. Saturday Weiland Merritt Chapel, Rev. Thomas Bohannan officiating. Interment Restland. Pallbearers will be Simpson, Rosamond, Evans, and Seward grandsons.

Dallas Morning News
September 27, 1952
Transcribed by Carol Moore.

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Florence's mother's name is given as Mary Melissa (DeWeese) Owens.

Florence's father, William Leonard Hurbough married again after Mary died.

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Here is Florence's father's 2nd marriage. Their marriage certificate states that William was from Texas and Martha A. "Mattie" Rhetts was "of Harrison County, Indiana":

Name: William L. Hurbaugh
Event Type: Marriage Registration
Event Date: 04 Sep 1902
Event Place: Harrison, Indiana
Residence Place: Texas
Gender: Male
Marriage License Date: 03 Sep 1902
Marriage Place: Corydon, Harrison Co., Indiana
Spouse's Name: Martha A. Rhetts
Spouse's Residence Place: Harrison
Spouse's Residence County: Harrison
Spouse's Gender: Female
Officiator's Name: Thos. W. Winkler, minister.

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Some of Florence's siblings:

George L. Hurbough
William H. Hurbough
Griffith E. Hurbough
Edgar Hurbough
Lillie I. Hurbough

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