April 24, 1929 – February 21, 2010 In Loving Memory.
Charles Andrew Owens, born April 24, 1929, at Philadelphia, MS., grandson of John Marshall Cliburn and Ella Strickland Cliburn of the McDonald community, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, 8:00 pm, at Mobile Infirmary in Mobile, Al.

Charles was a Navy veteran, who graduated from East Mississippi Community College in Scooba, Ms.

He was employed by The U.S. Postal Service and was a Metalurgist with The Bureau of Standards (U.S. Mint) in Washington, D.C.

He is predeceased by his parents were Jack and Iva Cliburn Owens of Philadelphia, MS. He is survived by his sisters, Grace Dunigan of Murfreesboro, TN. and Dorothy Thornton of Mobile, Al. and his brother, Jack M. Owens , Sr. of Charlotte, NC.; his grandsons, Matthew Helget and Nicholaus Helget of Lebanon, Oregon.

Mr. Owens will be interred with Military Honors on Monday, March 1, 2010 at 2:30 in the Biloxi National Cemetery, Biloxi, MS.