Barbara Jane Owens

OWENS, Barbara Jane, 60, of Dunnsville, died Friday, November 27, 2009. She worked for EVB for over 20 years and later as an LPN in the Riverside Tappahannock Hospital Emergency Room. Barbara was an EMT-CPR instructor, a lifetime member of the Tappahannock Essex Volunteer Rescue Squad and had served as district vice-president of the rescue squad. She was a member of Howertons Baptist Church, where she served as a former Sunday School teacher and treasurer. She was a member of the DAR. She was preceded in death by her father, Russell L. Owens Sr.; and her sister, Anne Louis Owens Coghill. Barbara is survived by her mother, Eunice C. Owens; two sisters, Phyllis O. Lankford and husband, John, Linda O. Johnson and her husband, Wayne; one brother, Russell L. Owens Jr. and his wife, Renee; her nieces and nephews, J. Kevin Lankford and his wife, Stephanie, Tracy C. Ferguson and her husband, Brooks, Karen L. Lankford, Kristi L. Cunningham and her husband, Eric, Travis Coghill and his wife, Bettina, Jennifer J. Broache, David W. Johnson and his wife, Janet, Britney N. Owens and Brandon R. Owens; and eight great-nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Marks-Bristow Funeral Home, Tappahannock. Interment will follow in Howertons Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 this evening at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Howertons Baptist Church Benevolent Fund.


This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.