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Dottie West called him a "legend", and Charlie Daniels simply called him a "superstar. Hall of Fame Songwriter and SECA Award Winning Star
Writer of one of the GREATEST hits ever
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Yvette Owen, 62, died Aug. 23rd, 2005 at 3:20 p.m. at her home in Branson, Mo.

 
A 1960 graduate of Sebree (Ky.) High School, Yvette worked in country music for almost forty years, working for Chet Atkins at RCA, promoting Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton and many other stars in the country field. For the past 15 years, she managed the music career of her husband, Jim Owen.

Yvette Owen was born Delores Yvette Robards, in Sebree, Ky., Sept. 3, 1942, to Thomas G. and Magdelene Berry Robards. She was preceded in death by her father.

Yvette was an accomplished artist in oils, and her paintings decorate homes and business establishments across the United States.
Hers was a life of giving. She was a former board member of Christian Action Ministries in Branson, an organization that helps the needy, and she organized concerts with an admission price of canned goods, the canned goods going to CAM


While living in Las Vegas, she worked at a hospital for the drug addicted, caring for babies born to drug addiction. Many of these babies were orphans, or deserted, and Yvette was the first mother figure they knew.
She is survived by her husband of forty-five years, Jim Owen, her daughter, Cristy Jo Owen, of Branson, her mother, Maggie Perrin, Sebree, two granddaughters, Leslie and Ashley Floyd of Branson, one great-granddaughter, Tabitha Marie Perryman, of Branson, a sister, Paula Ruddell of Columbus, Ind., and a brother, Thomas Robards, Sebree.

 
 
 
 
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