The Herald Democrat on February 12, 2010
SHERMAN - Services for Lahoma Gene Owens, formerly of Sherman, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Chapel on the Hill at Cedarlawn Memorial Park. Mrs. Owens passed away Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 at Christian Care Center in Mesquite.

Lahoma is survived by her daughter Peggy Clark of Denison; sister, Nell Portman of Sulphur, Okla.; and six grandchildren.
Family visitation will be from 3 -4 p.m. Sunday at Waldo Funeral Home. 

The Herald Democrat on February 14, 2010
SHERMAN - Services for Lahoma Gene Owens, formerly of Sherman, will be held Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, at 10 a.m. in the Chapel on the Hill at Cedarlawn Memorial Park. Mrs. Owens passed away Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, at Christian Care Center in Mesquite. John Curtis of the 5th and Beach Street Church of Christ in Durant, Okla., will officiate. Burial will follow at Cedarlawn Memorial Park. Honorary pallbearers will be her grandsons, Ralph Owens, Michael Clark, Jerry Clark and Matt Clark. Waldo Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Lahoma was born Oct. 16, 1915, in Mangum, Okla., to C. J. and Willie May Fowler Gillaspie. She worked at Perrin Air Force Base in the PX for 10 years, and then in the water department for the City of Sherman for 10 years. She was a member of Western Heights Church of Christ and was a long time Bible teacher in the Cradle Roll. 
On June 24, 1932, she married Mervin Fred Owens in Marrietta, Okla. He preceded her in death on May 2, 2002. 
Preceded in death by her husband, sons Mervin Fred Owens Jr. and Clifton Wayne Owens, she is survived by her daughter, Peggy Clark and husband Floyd of Denison; sister-in-law Chic Owens, of Abilene; grandchildren Ralph Owens, Donna Nichols, Tammy Owens, Michael Clark, Jerry Clark and Matt Clark; and a sister Nell Portman of Sulphur, Okla.
Family visitation will be from 3 -4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010, at Waldo Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association , 4144 N. Central Expressway, Suite 750, Dallas, TX 75204.