Hanson, Mabel A. (Owen) (Queen)

Source:  The Grove Sun Daily

Mabel Queen Owen Hanson 1910-2005 Obituary

GROVE, Okla. - Mabel Queen Owen Hanson departed this life on January 29, 2005 at Grove, Okla. She was 94 years old.  Mabel was born on July 1, 1910 at the Queen family farm near Mutual, in Woodward County, Okla. to Alvin Moxley and Lula Ellen Jividen Queen. She was named Alice Mabel at birth, and was later known as Mabel A.  Mabel married Raymond Earl Owen on May 1, 1927. Raymond and Mabel lived and worked in Woodward, Buffalo, Mooreland, and Vici, in Oklahoma, finally settling in Woodward where their three sons; Loyd, Billy, and Jack were born.

The family later moved to Guymon and then to Claremore, Okla. where Mabel and Raymond retired from their food service business to a farm near Gravette, Ark., and later to a farm near Noel, Mo. They finally moved to Hough's Acres, northeast of Grove, where in 1978, Raymond died.

On February 11, 1985, Fred Greenlee Hanson and Mabel A. Owen were married.  They lived at the Hough's Acres residence until April, 1996 and after that at Grand Lake Villa, Grove, Okla.

Mabel was preceded in death by her parents, Alvin and Lulu Queen; her husband, Raymond; her husband, Fred; her brothers; Perry, Geordia, and Alva Queen; her sister, Lucille McClellan; and her son, Billy.  Survivors include: two sons, ten grandchildren, twenty-five great grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.  Mabel was a member of the Elk River Baptist Church. She is interred at the Olympus Cemetery, Grove, Okla.