This is my Great Grandparent, Glen and Maude Owen standing in front of house on 327 Kensington St, Ferndale MI. The house where my mother and my uncle grew up.
Glen is the son of George Frank and Ellen Owen. He was born June 3, 1890 and died May 15, 1981. He started life in Lovells, Michigan and ended life Big Rapids, Michigan. In between lived, married and raised his family in Grayling MI. Per the 1930 census his family is in Lincoln Park MI. I am told he lived there till his wife Maude passed away then moved back to Grayling MI.
He worked in 1910 as a Teamster in Mill yard and a logger, by 1920 Stillman at Dupont Ponder, and by 1930 worked at Ford Motor Co. then later as a custodian at the first Presbyterian Church in Dearborn MI.
I met him a few times when I was a child. I remember visiting him at his house in Grayling. He had a small room with lots of logging photos on the wall. He was telling me about some stories but being about 7 years old I never really paid any attention. I also remember his little white car and his house on KP Lake.
Maude was Maude Mary LaRue before she married Glen. Her parents were Peter C. and Malvina LaRue. She was born April 22, 1893 Lewiston MI and died April 9, 1959 Lincoln Park MI. I never met my great grandmother, she died only 3 months before I was born.
Maude and Glen married July 1, 1912. They had 7 children and only the first 2 survived to be adults and gave them decendants, my grandfather Russel Lee and his brother Niland Paul. Jack Francis their 5th child died at the age of 14 in 1939 with diabetes. All their other children died as babies. How hard that would have been for them, I can only imagine. I was told by family members Maude had a very wonderful and lively personality. Laughed a lot. I was also told my mother resembles very much like her grandmother Maude. My mom laughs a lot too and so did her brother, my uncle Dave. I would have liked my great grandmother Maude very much if I had known her.....If only I had a time machine....
