When James Alfred Owens was born on 12 April 1924, in Nebraska, United States, his father, William Thomas Owens, was 29 and his mother, Mattie Almedia Rhoten, was 21. He married Margaret Reese on 30 October 1943, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. He died on 12 May 1985, at the age of 61.
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Welsh: variant of Owen , with post-medieval excrescent English -s.
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form by bearers of the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain (see McEwen ).
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