Rd Owens

OWENS, Mr. RD, 74, a resident of Luverne, Alabama, passed away on Thursday, July 21, 2016. Funeral services for Mr. Owens will be held at 2 PM on Saturday, July 23, at South Luverne Baptist Church with Dr. Sam Tate and Brother Don Yancey officiating. Interment will follow in Rutledge Cemetery with Turner Funeral Home of Luverne directing. Mr. Owens was preceded in death by his son, Timmy Rex Owens, parents, Roy Dillard and Viola Bell Owens, and two brothers, Billy Ray Owens and Roy Dillard Owens, Jr. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Linda Rogers Owens, three children, Vicki Lynn (Chris Hussey) Billings, Tracy Watson, and Josh Owens, five grandchildren, Andy (Amber Cleland) Carr, Bethany (Josh) Boutwell, Tanner Watson, Brook Watson, and Addie Owens, two great-granddaughters, Alayna Cleland and Alissa Carr, seven sisters, Edwina Chancellor, Mary Drake, Edna Owens, Christine Boutwell, Janet Hudspeth, Katrina Scruggs, and Kaye Merrett, and brother, Thomas Owens. Active pallbearers will be Calvin Bowden, James “June Bug” Colquitt, Sherill Jeffcoat, Jonathan Mills, Jerry Stephenson, Morris Tate, and Will Tate. Honorary pallbearers will be the McDonald’s Coffee Group: James and Marie Morgan, Pop Kilpatrick, Goober Dean, Working Man and Mary Walker, Maxine Sikes, and Henry Guy Edwards. The family will receive friends at the church on Saturday from 1 – 2pm.