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- [S30] Millsaps Cemetery Survey, Dennis C. Wilson, (Hamilton County Tennessee Genealogical Society, October 2004), http://www.hctgs.org/Cemeteries/cemetery_millsaps.htm.
- [S237] Chattanooga Central High School, Class of 1963, (http://63pounders.com/faculty-index.php).
Edward Agee Owens
Mar 3, 1918 - Feb 25, 1998
Edward Agee Owens was born March 3, 1918 in Gladeville, Wise County, Virginia to coal miner/electrician William Benjamin and Parker Mason Owens. Owens received a BS from Milligan College in 1939 and a DDS from Atlanta-Southern Dental College in 1943. "Eddie" entered the Army upon graduation from dental school and served as a Medical Officer until discharge in 1946, at which time he briefly practiced dentistry in Virginia before marrying former Milligan classmate and Daisy Elementary School teacher Blanche Millsaps and began practicing dentistry in Daisy. Edward and Blanche (younger sister of Willard Millsaps) had two children - Edward Jr. (born 6/1/48) and Deborah Diane (born 11/14/53). In 1962 Edward Owens earned teaching certification from UC and began his second career at Central High teaching biology that fall, eventually succeeding J. Arlie Hoodenpyl as chemistry teacher and science department head in 1964. Dr Owens received an MS in Biology from Peabody in 1965. Owens left New Central in 1972 to become a physics and chemistry teacher at Soddy-Daisy High, retiring in 1983. The 1976 Trojan Yearbook was dedicated to Dr. Owens. Eddie Owens passed away in Soddy-Daisy on February 25, 1998, survived by his wife, two children and two grandchildren. He was buried in the Millsaps Cemetery in Soddy, to be joined in February 2014 by Blanche.
- [S14] Tennessee State Death Records Index 1949 - 2014, Tennessee Office of Vital Records, (http://register.shelby.tn.us/).
OWENS EDWARD A 02-25-1998 / 79 HAMILTON HAMILTON / TN MARRIED M WHITE 08076
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1918 - 1998 (79 years)
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