Evan Richards Walters OWEN

                       OBITUARY NOTICE, JAN 26 1934
    EVAN R. OWEN DIES
    AT FAMILY HOME
    FROM HEART DISEASE

    FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE IN TABERNACLE (LOGAN) SUNDAY

    FINISH WAS WRITTEN TO THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE EARTHLY LIFE OF ANOTHER OF CACHE
    VALLEY'S LEADING CIVIC AND BUSINESS LEADERS THURSDAY WHEN DEATH CLAIMED EVAN R.
    OWEN.  MR. OWEN DIED AT HIS HOME, 127 EAST THIRD NORTH, AT 4:15 p.m.

    DEATH FOLLOWED OVER A YEAR OF ILL HEALTH, HEART FAILURE BEING THE IMMEDIATE
    CAUSE OF HIS LAST ILLNESS.

    HAD ACTIVE LIFE

    FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. IN THE LOGAN TABERNACLE.
    INTERMANT WILL BE IN THE LOGAN CEMETERY.  FRIENDS MAY CALL AT THE HOME SATURDAY
    AFTERNOON OR SUNDAY UNTIL TIME FOR THE SERVICES.

    BORN IN WELLSVILLE, JUNE 14, 1867, MR. OWEN'S ENTIRE LIFE WAS A STORY OF ACTIVE
    WORK IN PRIVATE BUSINESS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, BOTH GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION.  HE
    WAS THE SON OF EVAN AND ELIZABETH WALTER OWEN.

    SPENDING HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD IN WELLSVILLE, MR. OWEN CAME TO LOGAN TO ATTEND
    THE BRIGHAM YOUNG COLLEGE.  HE GRADUATED FROM THAT PIONEER INSTITUTION IN 1887,
    BEING THE ONLY BOY IN A GROUP OF FOUR WHICH FORMED THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS
    OF THE B. Y. C.

    CONTINUING HIS EDUCATION, MR. OWEN ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH IN SALT
    LAKE, THEN RETURNED TO WELLSVILLE WHERE HE TAUGHT SCHOOL FOR 14 YEARS.  THEN HE
    TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, SPENDING SERVERAL YEARS IN A MERCANTILE
    ESTABLISHMENT BEFORE COMING TO LOGAN IN 1914.

    IN LOGAN, HE WAS FIRST CONNECTED WITH THE TELLURIDE POWER COMPANY AND WHEN THIS
    CONCERN WAS ABSORBED BY THE UTAH POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, JOINED THAT CONCERN,
    CONTINUING HIS UPWARD CLIMB UNTIL HE BECAME MANAGER OF THE LOGAN DIVISION WHICH
    INCLUDED MOST OF NORTHERN UTAH.  HE RETIRED ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO.  HE WAS
    ELECTED A DIRECTOR OF THE THATCHER BROTHERS BANK IN 1916 AND SERVED UNTIL THAT
    INSTITUTION WAS MERGED WITH THE FIRST SECURITY BANK OF UTAH TWO MONTHS AGO.

    DURING HIS ACTIVE CAREER, MR. OWEN STILL FOUND SUFFICIENT TIME TO TAKE A
    PROMINENT PART IN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS AS WELL AS IN CHURCH
    ACTIVITIES.  WHEN HE FIRST RETURNED TO WELLSVILLE, HE WAS ELECTED MAYOR,
    BECOMING AT 21 YEARS OF AGE, THE YOUNGEST MUNICIPAL EXECUTIVE IN THE STATE.  HE
    WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE, REPRESENTING CACHE COUNTY, AND WAS
    NOMINATED FOR SECRETARY OF STATE ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET ALTHOUGH NEVER
    REACHING THAT OFFICE.  HE WAS ALSO A TRUSTEE AT THE UTAH STATE AGRICULTURAL
    COLLEGE, SERVING FOUR YEARS FROM 1903 TO 1907.

    SERVED AS PRESIDENT

    AFTER COMING TO LOGAN, HE WAS ALSO ACTIVE CIVICLY, BEING ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
    THE LOGAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN 1916 AND SERVING UNTIL 1919.  HE WAS A
    PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE ROTARY CLUB AND HEADED THAT ORGANIZATION AS PRESIDENT
    IN 1927.  HE SERVED IN THE EMERGENCY WAR ORGANIZATION AS CACHE COUNTY AND LOGAN
    CITY FOOD ADMINISTRATOR.

    Mr. Owen's church activities included an L. D. S. mission to Great Britain
    from 1898-1900, part of which time he was president of the Welsh conference.
    Returning, he became bishop of the Wellsville ward which position he held for
    several years.  In Logan he was an active member of the Fourth ward until ill
    health forced his retirement.  As teacher of the adult class in the Fourth ward
    Sunday school, he established a reputation for modern and forceful thought
    which brought students to that class from all over Cache valley.

    Early in life, he married Lizzie Benson, the daughter of the late Apostle Ezra
    T. Benson and Elizabeth Benson.  She, with the following children survives:
    Cyril B. Owen, St. Louis; Mrs. Alta Shaw, Brigham City; Mrs. Louella
    MacFarlane, Santa Monica; C. Leslie Owen, Los Angeles; Mrs. Lucille Clark,
    Ogden; Mrs. Grettle Hansen and Ezra and Fred Owen, Logan.  Surviving also are
    16 grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters:  John Owen, Brigham
    City; Mrs. Mary O. Hill, Wells, Nevada; W. L. Owen, San Francisco.

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    This is typed exactly as the column appears in the newspaper, whose title is
    not shown.  A hand-written remark following the first paragraph shows "Jan
    25-," apparently the date of death, which is stated merely as "Thursday" in the
    obiturary.  The date shown enclosed in parentheses at the top of the page is
    also taken from a had-written remark, "Paper Jan 26-1934."