Scarlett Maria DeMoss Troutman, Schopp, Germany, March 27, 1997. troutman@snoopy.bunt.com Union Co. Lillie Evelyn (Hazel) Owens, of Sturgis, Union County, KY, born June 13, 1924 to Hiram Truman Hazel and Bessie Lee (Hinton) Hazel of Union County, Ky. Evelyn attended the Grangertown Baptist Church, Grangertown, Union County, KY. She attended school only to the sixth grade, and then dropped out and had a job that paid a quarter a week to help her family out with finances. Times were rough growing up. The subject was the 2nd child out of 8 children born to her parents marriage. Her father had been previously married to Anna Ratley and had 4 children by her, so in all, there were at times 12 children in one house. Her half siblings were William Hazel, Hiram Raymond Hazel, Jesse Hazel and Virginia Helen Hazel. Her other siblings were Emma Truman Hazel, Joe Curtis Hazel, Helen Louise Hazel, Vernon Marlin Hazel, Martha Madeline Hazel, Gordon Lee Hazel and Paul Edward Hazel. Two of her brothers, Joe Curtis and Paul Edward, dying in infancy. The father was a rough man and at times mistreated his children with severe beatings. On April 10, 1942 in Charleston, Mississippi County, Missouri, she married Hubbie Lee Owens, son of Baird Waldon Owens and Elsie Melinda (Sigler) Owens of Union County, KY. Shortly after the marriage her husband went into the Army and they moved to Orlando, Florida where she worked in the A&P store during World War II. They moved back to Union County, Ky and while her husband was an auto mechanic, she tended house, giving birth to three children, two that lived. Anna Lee Owens, William Earl Owens, and a baby girl miscarried at six months that would have been named Janet Faye Owens. As the children grew up, she returned to working. Doing just about anything. She cleaned houses, sat with elderly folks in their homes or while they were in the hospital. She finally retired from working at age 68. She loved to entertain family by cooking large meals and during the summer months, eating the meal outside on the large picnic table under the Maple tree. While she did not sew or enjoy reading, she did enjoy talking to friends, playing card games, and entertaining her three grandchildren, Scarlett Maria DeMoss, Mark Allan DeMoss and Randall Earl Owens. She always had flowers everywhere in her yard, and all across her front porch. She enjoyed sitting outside in the swing with a glass of unsweetened tea. About 1989 they sold their home in the country (Dekoven) and moved to town (Sturgis) where the yard was flat instead of all hill and things were easier to care for. Evelyn and her husband Hubbie were slowing down and needed a break. At their new home in town, Evelyn didn't stop. She joined the Senior Citizens Club and played cards and game with them, went shopping with them and other activities. She continued with her flowers at the new home, never quite deciding where exactly she wanted them and having them moved around every year. Evelyn did have heart problems and under went a triple bypass in 1994, and then had her right knee replaced in January of 1995. September of 1995 she became sick and pale, and was diagnosed with acute leukemia, AML. She became very depressed over it, trying to figure out what she had done wrong to deserve such a cruel and painful disease. After the disease tortured her for four months, she passed away on January 16, 1996 at her home in Sturgis, Union County, KY. She was 71 years young and up until she became sick, lived life to the fullest. Hazel Owens Hinton Ratley Sigler DeMoss = Mississippi-MO FL http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/union/owens.leh.txt