DONALD RAY "DON" OWENS, 80, of Walker, West Virginia passed away October 24, 2016 at the Parkersburg Care Center. Don was born October 26, 1935 in Melrose, Kansas a son of the late Carl Luther and Eva Pauline Watkins Owens. He worked as a longshoreman and Monongahela Power Company, was a US Army veteran and a member of the Faith Baptist Church in Seward, Alaska. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Ward Owens; three daughters, Rebecca Fauntelle Ash and her husband, Phillip of Parkersburg, Pamela Ruth Lehr and her husband, Ted of Martinsburg, West Virginia and Rachel Amanda Goots and her husband, William of Ruffin, North Carolina; nine grandchildren, Ian, Eli and Jon Ash, Emily, Owen and Casey Lehr, and Abigail, Guy and Gavin Goots; two sisters, Jeannine Cain and Alice Huggins, both of Olathe, Kansas; and four brothers, Samuel and Paul Owens, both of Kansas City, Kansas and Wyman and Dennis Owens, both of Anchorage, Alaska. There will be a graveside service at 2:00pm Friday, October 28, 2016 at the Ward Cemetery, Spencer. TAYLOR-VANDALE FUNERAL HOME, Spencer is in charge of arrangements. There will be no service or visitation at the funeral home.