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Surnames: ZIEGENBEIN, OWEN
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Obituary
Ashland Gazette, Oct. 21, 1971
Mrs. Roy Owen Dies Suddenly
Mrs. Roy Owen, 80, of Crete died suddenly at her home Sunday, Oct. 17. Funeral services
were held at the Kuncl Funeral Home at Crete Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 20, with the Rev.
Jim Tomlinson of Grace United Methodist Church of Crete officiating.
Pallbearers were her seven surviving brothers: Harry Ziegenbein of Lincoln, Dr. O. H.
Ziegenbein of Ashland, Dr. Rudolph Ziegenbein of Norfolk, James Ziegenbein of Omaha, Carl
Ziegenbein of Rt. 2, Ashland, and Walter Ziegenbein of Denver. Burial was in Lincoln
Memorial Park Cemetery. Emma Ziegenbein, daughter of Charles H. and Martha Humboldt
Ziegenbein, was born on a farm west of Memphis Feb. 4, 1891.She married Roy Owen of
Memphis and one son, Herbert E. Owen, was born to them.
He has been head of the music department at Mankato State College, Mankato, Minn. for the
past seven years. Mrs. Owen is a retired state Game Commissioner worker. Mrs. Owen was
church school superintendent at Memphis, and at Crete was a member of Grace United
Methodist Church, P.E.O., O.E.S., and Priscilla Club. In recent years she had devoted a
good deal of time to being a hospital volunteer worker. Besides her husband, son, and
seven brothers, Mrs. Owen is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary Baer of Lakewood,
Colorado, and Mrs. Ella Lillibridge of Crete, by three grandchildren, and one
great-grandchild.