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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Ownby
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:53:29 -0500

Article from unknown source with handwritten date of Dec 1957.
Extracted from the newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs.
Nannie Brown of Madison, Missouri.



"Mrs. Jessie Lee Ownby, 68, died at 2 a.m. Monday morning at the
Prairieville Hospital near St. Genevieve. Mrs. Ownby has been
hospitalized for 3 wks. She made her home in Ste. Genevieve with her
sister, Thelma Mitchell, who is a teacher in the Ste. Genevieve schools.
Mrs. Ownby, widow of Minor W. Ownby, was born September 25, 1889, at
Duncan's Bridge. Surviving are two sisters, Miss Mitchell of Ste.
Genevieve and Mrs. Pearl Kimball of Moberly and also several nephews.
Her brother, the late C. Roy Mitchell, served as county circuit clerk
for a number of years. The body lay in state at the Thompson Funeral
Home until the hour of the services which were held Wednesday afternoon
by Mrs. Ownby's pastor, the Rev. Glen Hall, pastor of the Madison
Methodist church. Burial in Sunset Hill cemetery."





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