Owen Lee Sanders, 77, of Warrensburg, Missouri, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at Western Missouri Medical Center in Warrensburg.

Visitation is set for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, at Ben Cast & Son-Wood Funeral Home.

Interment will be at the Baker Cemetery, in Elizabeth, Arkansas.

Owen was born Sept. 4, 1938, to James Sanders and Edna Reable “Ross” Sanders in Wild Cherry, Arkansas. Owen married Mary Lou French on Dec. 16, 1957, and worked at the General Motors Leeds plant in Kansas City where he spent most of his time as a welder. He was a proud veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Owen loved to build furniture for church raffles and fundraisers for Saddle Baptist Church in Saddle, Arkansas, which he did for many years.

Owen was preceded in death by his father, James Sanders. He is survived by his mother, Edna Reable Sanders; his wife, Mary Lou Sanders, of the home; one son, Douglas Owen Sanders, of Holden, Missouri; one daughter, Peggy Sue Hawthorne, and husband, Greg, of Holden; one brother, Donnie Sanders, of Alton, Missouri; four sisters, Sharon Maguffee, of Salem, Arkansas; Wilma Comstock, of West Plains, Missouri; Polly York, of Koshkonong, Missouri; and Audean Cantrell, of Kansas City, Missouri; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

 

Memorial contributions can be made in honor of Owen Lee Sanders to Ben Cast & Son-Wood Funeral Home.