Leona M. Owen, age 93 of Lemmon, passed away on Friday, November 19, 2010 in Mobridge.



The Memorial Service for Leona will be held at 10:30 am, Monday, December 27, 2010 at Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church in Lemmon. Burial will be in the Greenhill Cemetery.



LEONA MAY HALL was born July 14, 1917 at Date, SD to Boyd F. and Nettie Mae (Kirkpatrick) Hall. She attended Perkins County rural schools and graduated from Lemmon High School in 1935. Leona attended Bismarck Hospital School of Nursing where she earned a nursing degree in 1938.



She began her nursing career at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, MN and then moved to Dayton, OH where she worked at Wright Field. Leona was united in marriage to Dwight G. Owen on January 5, 1941 in Lemmon. Leona and Dwight purchased the Bamble Hardware Store. Leona continued nursing at the Five Counties Hospital in Lemmon. In 1967, Leona began working as the school nurse for the Lemmon School System, working there for 14 years. Her husband, Dwight, passed away on December 17, 1982. She worked at Five Counties Nursing Home from 1982 to 1990. In 1991, Leona moved to Bismarck where she resided until moving to Mobridge in 2005.



She was an active member of Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church in Lemmon where she taught Sunday School and was very active in the woman's group in the church and in Chapter AH - PEO. While living in Bismarck, she was a member of the 1st Presbyterian Church.



Surviving family members include her 2 daughters and sons-in-law, Jean and Rick Cain, Mobridge, SD, Julie and Don Schmidt, Fargo, ND, son and daughter-in-law, Jim and Ellen Owen, Bismarck, ND; 7 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren; and 1 sister-in-law, Alice Hall, Meadow, SD; and numerous nieces and nephews.



She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and 2 brothers, Kirk and Forrest Hall.