Frank Andrew Owens, Sr., 82, of 765 Washington Ave., Tyrone, died Friday evening, Nov. 24, 2006 at Altoona Regional Health System- Altoona Hospital Campus.
\nHe was born July 5, 1924 in Tyrone, a son of William T. and Helen Parker (Andrews) Owens, Sr. He was married June 6, 1947 in Tyrone to Patricia C. Williams.
\nHe is survived by his wife, a son Frank A. Owens, Jr. of Pittsburgh, daughter Karen S. Owens and a son Anthony L. Owens, Sr. and his friend Elaine of Tyrone; four grandsons: John O. McGill, IV of Sydney, Australia; Anthony L. Owens, Jr. (Melissa) of Lock Haven, PA, Marcus A. Owens of Tyrone and Jamal W. Owens of Indiana, PA; two great granddaughters: Jayden Rae Owens and Demea Brinsley Owens; five sisters and two brothers: Mary Ann Martin of Montclair, NJ; Esther Hendricks of Freeport, NY; Gwendolyn Scott of NY; Francis Crawford of Huntingdon, NY; Constance Cisco of NY; Carl Owens of Hemstead, NY and Andrew Holland of Altoona, PA.
\nHe was preceded in death by a sister Patricia and brothers Gordon, William T., Jr. and John.
\nHe attended the Tyrone Trinity Episcopal Church. He was a member of the Tyrone American Legion and the VFW. He was a former member of the Masonic Purity Lodge # 41. He loved fishing and his boat.
\nHe was a Navy veteran of WW II, serving in the Asian and Pacific Theatres as a Chief Petty Officer.
\nHe retired from Penn Central Railroad as a car inspector and welder after 24 years service.
\nFuneral services and Flag presentation will be held Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006 at 1 p.m. at the Derman Funeral Home, Inc., Tyrone with Rev. Jeanne Jacobson officiating. Interment will be in the Grandview Cemetery.
\nFriends will be received at the funeral home on Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and one hour before the service on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frank Andrew Owens, Sr., 82, of 765 Washington Ave., Tyrone, died Friday evening, Nov. 24, 2006 at Altoona Regional Health System- Altoona Hospital Campus. He was born July 5, 1924 in Tyrone, a son of William T. and Helen Parker (Andrews) Owens, Sr. He was married June 6, 1947 in Tyrone to Patricia C. Williams. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}