DELORES YVETTE OWEN
Yvette Owen, 62, died Aug. 23rd, 2005 at 3:20 p.m. at her home in Branson, Mo.
A 1960 graduate of Sebree (Ky.) High School, Yvette worked in country music for almost forty years, working for Chet Atkins at RCA, promoting Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton and many other stars in the country field. For the past 15 years, she managed the music career of her husband, Jim Owen.
Yvette Owen was born Delores Yvette Robards, in Sebree, Ky., Sept. 3, 1942, to Thomas G. and Magdelene Berry Robards. She was preceded in death by her father.
Yvette was an accomplished artist in oils, and her paintings decorate homes and business establishments across the United States.
Hers was a life of giving. She was a former board member of Christian Action Ministries in Branson, an organization that helps the needy, and she organized concerts with an admission price of canned goods, the canned goods going to CAM.
While living in Las Vegas, she worked at a hospital for the drug addicted, caring for babies born to drug addiction. Many of these babies were orphans, or deserted, and Yvette was the first mother figure they knew.
She is survived by her husband of forty-five years, Jim Owen, her son, James K. (Rusty) Owen of Nashville, her daughter, Cristy Jo Owen, of Branson, her mother, Maggie Perrin, Sebree, two granddaughters, Leslie and Ashley Floyd of Branson, one great-granddaughter, Tabitha Marie Perryman, of Branson, a sister, Paula Ruddell of Columbus, Ind., and a brother, Thomas Robards, Sebree.
In these photos of Mom you will notice her smile. In every photo where Dad was in her life you see a smile that touched us all. A smile that we will never forget. A smile that told of how happy she was and how much she was in love with Dad. I was fortunate enough to grow up under the shade of that love and smile. All that I am and all that I will ever be is due to the love that exists between them and that smile she shined upon the world. (Rusty Owen)