Bisch and Son Funeral Home

July 1, 2017Betty June Taylor Owens died July 1, 2017 in Corvallis.She was born August 8, 1923 in Springfield, Illinois to Cleave B. and Mabelle C. Taylor.She attended Hay-Edwards Elementary, Springfield High School, Brown’s Business College and Lincoln Land Community College.She was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII.She later worked in the family business and for the Illinois Board of Higher Education.She married Robert J. Owens on March 30, 1944 in Miami, and they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in 2014. They were members of West Side Christian Church in Springfield, Illinois.Betty volunteered throughout her life, including at Jacksonville State Hospital and Illinois State Museum, and taught lip-reading for several years.Her interests included reading, cooking, genealogy, and collecting antique china and porcelain.After retirement, she and Bob traveled around the United States, visiting grandchildren in Oregon and Tennessee, and touring England and Holland when their son was on sabbatical in Oxford, England.Family was the focus of her life. She was a devoted and dearly loved wife, daughter, mother, Grammie and Great-Grammie.After her husband’s death, she moved to Corvallis, where she resided at Timberhill Place until her death. She enjoyed many new friendships and time with family during her “new life” in Oregon.Betty is survived by sons Robert J. (Mary Ann) Owens, Jr of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and William (Christine) Owens of Fishers, Indiana; daughter Nancy (Leslie) Pliskin of Corvallis; grandchildren Monica (Justin) Dugan, Taylor (Alyssa) Owens, Jessica Pliskin, and Benjamin (Whitney) Pliskin; and great-grandchild, Colin Dugan.She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Robert J. Owens, Sr.Visitation will be Friday morning, July 14, at Bisch and Sons Funeral Home in Springfield, Illinois, followed by a graveside service at Oakridge Cemetery in Springfield. Robert J. Owens, Jr. will be the officiating clergy.In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to American Macular Degener... (Corvallis Gazette Times)

She had been in hospice care.Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at Calvert & Metzler Memorial Home, Bloomington. Her celebration of life service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Calvert & Metzler Memorial Home, Bloomington, with the Rev. Kathy King-Nobles presiding. A one-hour visitation will be afforded prior to the service beginning at 9 a.m. A family and friends gathering luncheon will be hosted at First United Methodist Church of Normal immediately after the funeral. Rites of cremation will be afforded, and a private inurnment will be at a later date at East Lawn Memorial Gardens, Bloomington. Memorials may be made to The Baby Fold and Advocate BroMenn Hospice.Margaret, or “Dee” as she was also known to many of her friends and co-workers, was born Nov. 29, 1928, in Bloomington, the daughter of Edward Charles and Ruth Viola Arnold Ringel. She married Richard L. Myers on Aug. 16, 1947. Richard passed away Dec. 12, 1995.Surviving are her three children, Jaye “J.E.” Myers, Normal; Renee (Kevin) Genge, Normal; and Richard (Elizabeth Baudhuin) Myers, Washington, D.C. Also surviving are one granddaughter, Natalie (Josh) Ogden, Colfax, and two stepgrandsons, Christopher and Elliott Genge of Bloomington. Margaret is also survived by her great-granddaughter, Allison Ogden, who shares her birthday with Great Gran'mama.She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard; her mother, Ruth; her wonderful stepfather, Walker A. Taylor; her two sisters, Mary Ann Snavely of Kankakee and Florence Schneckenberger of Commack, Long Island, N.Y.; and her foster sister, Faye Bridgewater of Springfield.Depression-era struggles led 3-year-old Margaret and her two infant sisters to be raised first at The Baby Fold in Normal, and then at the wonderful Lucy Morgan Home for Girls in Bloomington. She always said she was raised in a loving and nurturing environment there. When Margaret was 13 years old, her mother married Walker Taylor and all three of the girls at last went home.Margaret graduated from Bloomington High School in 1947. She especially... (Bloomington Pantagraph)