Yvette Owen, 62, died
Aug. 23rd, 2005 at 3:20 p.m. at her home in Branson, Mo. |
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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
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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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