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- Obituary, Kinmundy Express August 29, 1935
Owen W., son of Jesse and Louisa Dance George, was born in Effingham Co., near Gilmore, Ill. on Feb. 24, 1859. At one year of age he came with his parents and settled on a farm north of Kinmundy, and with the exception of three years spent in Kansas, he lived in this vicinity the remainder of his life. When quite young, he endured a severe siege of sickness, the result being impaired eyesight, a handicap throughout these years. He was of a family of 11 children with only Charles of Mattoon, Dick of Odin, Mrs. Maude Horrell of West Frankfort, and Walter S. George of this city, surviving. On October 8, 1885, he married Dovey A. Gray, and they had 3 children: Mrs. Ethel Malinsky, Ray and Earl George, the latter dying in 1918. When only 3 months old, a nephew, Glenn Brasel, was taken into this home and reared to manhood. He was an Elder of Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Shanghai since he helped in its erection in 1911. Besides the wife, brothers, and sisters, he leaves six grandchildren: Jesse, Elizabeth, Eileen, and Helen George, Geneva Osborn and Alice George, and one great-grandchild, Joan Osborn; also Glenn's three children, whom he loved as his own grandchildren. Services were held at Shanghai church with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
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1859 - 1935 (76 years)
