Funeral service for Barbara Sue Cox Owensby, age 78, of Decatur, will be Monday, March 13, 2017, 1:00 p.m. at Shelton Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. R. C. Borden officiating. The family will receive friends for two hours prior to service. Interment will be in Johnson Chapel Cemetery.
Mrs. Owensby, who died Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at River City Center, was born April 23, 1938, in Dalton, GA, to Felton Joseph Cox and Thelma Ruth Burgess Cox. She was preceded in death by her parents, daughter Karen Michelle Segars, and grandson Benjamin Segars.
She is survived by her loving husband, Roland Stewart Owensby of Decatur; one daughter, Pamela Owensby Phillips of Decatur; two sisters, Virginia Lynn Martin of Rocky Face, GA, and Donna Marie McConnell of Decatur; four grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be family and friends.
