Edwyl Owen

OWEN, EDWYL IRENE GARRITYA visitation will be held at LaGrone Funeral Chapel from 57 P.M.,on Thursday, January 30, 2014 for Edwyl Edie Owen of Roswell, who passed away on January 25, 2014. Interment will be at Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.

Edie was born on August 29, 1915 in Montrose, Colorado to Benjamin and Opal Macy Stout. She graduated high school there and lived there for 25 years. She married Peter Garrity in 1947 in Topeka, Kansas.

During her first marriage, she traveled all over Europe with her husband, who was in the Army. She loved to travel and spent several years overseas, before coming to Roswell in November of 1974. She married George Owen in 1982 in Roswell, New Mexico

She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star in Junction City, Kansas, White Shrine of Jerusalem, Social Order of Beauceant, a charter member of RSVP, a former member of the Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Auxiliary for over 30 years, Gold Star Wives of America, Roswell Masonic Widows, former member of Colorado City Rebekah, a Grey Lady with American Red Cross in Germany, Arizona, and California hospitals, and AARP, First Christian Church, and Ladies Guild.

She is survived by one niece, one nephew, a step daughter: Stephanie Owen of Roswell, and several cousins in Colorado, California and Kansas. She has been preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, and her brothers.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are to be made to the Roswell Humane Society: 703 E. McGaffey St., Roswell, NM 88203.

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