Marjorie "Marge" May Owen

Marjorie "Marge" May Owen, 87, longtime Warden resident, passed away Saturday, June 5, 2004 at Avalon Care Center in Othello.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. on June 12, 2004 at Kayser's Chapel of Memories with Pastor Mark Bassett officiating. Services will conclude at the chapel.

Arrangements are in care of Kayser's Chapel and Crematory, Moses Lake.

Marjorie was born April 18, 1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah, daughter of the late Karl and May (Cox) Lewis. She grew up on various farms in Idaho and the family eventually settled in the Nampa area where she graduated from high school. She enjoyed playing sports in her younger years.

While still living in Nampa, she married and had two children. She also cooked for the crews on the Keith Ranch. She was married to Sam Owen on November 27, 1947 in Nampa. They lived in Arco, Idaho for several years where they operated the Sawtooth Tavern.

In 1961 they moved to Warden. Marge published the Warden Register for many years and also worked at the Warden Golf Course and the Corral Restaurant.

Marge had a great sense of humor. Her enjoyment of sports carried on in adult life as she was a championship bowler and loved playing golf. She also loved to travel and one of her favorite trips was to Japan.

She loved her family, going to the beach, working in her yard and her two dogs, Bounce and Mojo. She also enjoyed the Mariners baseball team.

She is survived by: her granddaughters, Suzanne and John Obermeyer of Yakima and Sally Shelton and Roger of Yakima; great-grandchildren, Brett Shelton of Yakima, Shannon Shelton of Zillah and Austin Dolan of Yakima; and a great great-granddaughter, Abbigail Shelton-Chavez of Zillah.

In addition to her parents, May and Karl Lewis, she was also preceded in death by her brother, Jack Lewis, husband, Sam Owen, daughter, Sharon Shelton, son-in-law, Dan Shelton and son, Joseph E. Owen.

Special thanks to good friends, Annemarie, the three sisters next door and her caregiver, Liz Stage for taking such good care of her at the end of her life, as well as the staff at Avalon Care Center, and all her Warden friends who treated her with such love, care and concern that she could never bear to stay away from her hometown for long.