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M. Lucille Childress Owen-Huston
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November 9, 1931 ~ July 31, 2013 |
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August 2, 2013 |
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Lucille (Childress) Owen-Huston passed away at
10:30 p.m. July 31, 2013, at Boundary Community
Hospital in Bonners Ferry, where she had been
fighting a losing battle with congestive heart
failure. Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m.
Monday, August 5, at the Bonners Ferry Funeral
Home, with interment at 11 a.m. Tuesday, August
6, at Riverview Cemetery, Coeur d’Alene.
Lucille was born on November 9, 1931, in
Shawnee, Oklahoma, to Charles William and Flora
Bell (Durham) Childress. Lucille graduated from
Shawnee High School, where she was always active
in women’s basketball and other sports.
She then located to live with an aunt and uncle
in California, where she met her first husband,
Joseph Michael Owen, Jr. and was married on May
7, 1950, in Quartsite, Arizona. The family lived
for some time in Compton, California, after
which they relocated to the Corvallis, Oergon,
area, where Lucille became employed in the city
finance and accounting department. Being
responsible for all city employees’ payroll and
outstanding city invoices.
After the death of her husband on March 8, 1990,
she moved to Coeur d’Alene to be nearer to her
son Rande. There she met and married her present
husband William (Bill) Huston on March 13, 1992.
She was an active artist and will be greatly
missed by all who knew her.
Lucille was preceded in death by her parents,
husband Joseph Owen, brothers John Lewis
Childress and Loren Dale Childress, son Ronald
Kelly Owen and daughter Sheree Lynn Owen.
She is survived by brother Edward Franklin
Childress, sisters; Rose May Austin and Dorothy
Mae Magnuson; sons: Joseph Michael Owen; Rande
Curtis Owen; Daughter Cynthia Lynn Owen Wood;
and husband William R. Huston and her
grandchildren; great-grandchildren; nieces and
nephews.
Family and friends are invited to sign Lucille’s
book at
www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are entrusted to the care of
Bonners Ferry Funeral Home. |
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