Mary Jo (Recobs) Owens (1930 - 2021)

Born 21 Jan 1930 in Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Billy Francis Owens — married 12 Jun 1953 in Madison County, Indiana, USA

Died 22 May 2021 at age 91 in Cicero, Hamilton County, Indiana, USA

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Biography

Mary was born in 1930. She was the daughter of Frank Recobs and Virgile Osborne. She passed away in 2021.

She married Bill Owens on June 12, 1953 Their children were Anne (Owens) Tharp, Steve Owens and Kathy (Owens) Bures.

She was a graduate of Tipton High School, Class of 1948. From an early age, music was a great interest and she played the flute and occasionally piccolo in the Tipton High School band and the Ball State Orchestra. For a time she studied at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music in Indianapolis.

Mary Jo attended Ball State University receiving a bachelor's degree in elementary education in 1952. In her early years she taught in the Indianapolis Public Schools System, Northwestern Howard Schools, Galveston, Indiana, and Third Ward in Noblesville, Indiana. Finally she taught in the Hamilton Heights School community for the next four decades. She completed her master's degree at Ball State in 1967.

Her retirement years were spent tutoring her grandchildren, enjoying the company of family and friends, going to church, studying the bible and rooting for Notre Dame football. She also enjoyed reading voluminously, especially mysteries and spy stories of a British or New England flavor. She enjoyed sharing her community spirit with her friends of the Cicero Kiwanis Club.

Mary passed away on May 22, 2021 in Cicero, Hamilton County, Indiana followed with burial at the Cicero Cemetery in Cicero, Hamilton County, Indiana,

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228094721/mary-jo-owens