Owens Memorial Services

11/21/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

Thanksgiving is only a week away…
and for many of us, the closer it gets,
the heavier everything begins to feel.

Everyone is talking about plans, food, family, and gratitude...
but nobody sees the quiet heartbreak
behind the people who are just trying to survive the holidays
without the person they miss more than anything.

There will be an empty chair this year.
A space that used to be filled with laughter,
stories, and a voice we would give anything to hear again.

And while the world expects us to be thankful,
they don’t understand how complicated it is
to carry grief and gratitude in the same heart.

We’re trying.
We’re doing our best to hold it together,
to smile when it hurts,
to show up even when our heart feels broken.

But the truth is…
this season is hard.
And missing someone you love
doesn’t get easier just because a holiday is coming.

So if your heart is aching too...
you’re not alone.
We’ll get through this together, one breath, one day at a time.
🕯️💔

11/20/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

When I was in acute grief, it wasn’t just my heart that hurt. It was everything. My whole body ached in ways I didn’t know it could. It wasn’t only sadness, it was physical pain that lived in every inch of me. The world turned upside down, and nothing made sense anymore. Not even my own body. Everything felt wrong.
There was a weight in my chest that I couldn’t breathe around. My stomach felt hollow, like something had been scooped out and left empty. My muscles stayed tight, my limbs heavy. Even resting didn’t help, because exhaustion wasn’t just tiredness anymore, it was survival. Grief didn’t just live in my head, it lived under my skin.
That kind of pain is hard to explain to anyone who hasn’t felt it. It takes over. It makes the world smaller, slower, harder to move through. But if you’re in that place now, please know this, you’re not broken, and you’re not the only one. Grief lives in the body too. It changes everything for a while. And even though it won’t always hurt this much, it’s ok that it does right now.

11/19/2025

ALEXANDRIA, IN – Bryan D. Patz, 39, passed away unexpectedly in the early hours of Monday, November 17, 2025, at his home from natural causes.

Bryan was born on January 30, 1986, in Anderson to George and Julie (Eagleson) Patz. He attended Alexandria schools. For most of his working life, Br...

11/19/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

I keep thinking there will come a day when things click back into place, when I wake up and something feels normal. But it never happens. Everything still feels slightly off, tilted, wrong. The air is different. The days stretch and collapse in strange ways. Nothing fits the way it used to.
I keep thinking maybe if enough time passes, it will make sense again, but it doesn’t. The world keeps pretending it’s fine while I’m still standing in the middle of the mess, trying to remember what it felt like to belong here. You were my sense of balance, my reason for caring about what happened next. Now everything just feels... unfinished.
There’s a kind of homesickness that comes with grief. It’s not for a place, it’s for the life that used to make sense. For the version of the world that still had you in it. I don’t think that ever really goes away, but maybe one day it won’t hurt as hard.
If you’re still waiting for the world to feel right again, you’re not alone. So many of us are still living in the in-between, learning how to exist in a world that doesn’t line up anymore.
The world might stay crooked, but we keep walking through it, still holding the love that changed everything.

11/18/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

I thought we’d have a thousand more, 🌅
Of simple laughs, of walks, of doors.
I took for granted morning light,
Not knowing loss could steal the night. 💔

Your smile, your voice, the way you’d care,
Were gifts I didn’t know were rare. 🌸
Now every day I understand,
The treasure slipped through my own hand. 💧

I’d trade forever just to see,
One more small day of you with me. 🕊️
A cup of tea, a shared sunrise,
The warmth that lived within your eyes. ☀️

I live with memories, not regret,
For love is something time won’t let. ❤️
And though I ache, my heart implores,
To meet again — for a thousand more. 💫

— Memories of You

11/17/2025

Family and friends are invited to a graveside inurnment of cremains on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at 11 am in Park View Cemetery, 1101 South Park Avenue, Alexandria. Family and friends will officiate. Military honors will be accorded by the United States Army and the Elwood VFW #5782 Honors team at the graveside service.

View Lewis E. "Lew" Hannah's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

11/17/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

Grief doesn’t only
live in my heart,
It lives in my body too
Sometimes it shows up
In predictable ways,
and sometimes it shows up in new.

Like the way I hear a familiar song
And suddenly my legs feel heavy,
The way an anniversary comes and goes
And intense fatigue envelops me.
The way I lament for lost moments
And a tension headache ups the intensity.

There’s a million little ways
That my body feels it too
The palpable and permanent
Absence of you,
It packs itself into my shoulders,
Settles into my bones,
Pits itself into my stomach
Like a cold and heavy stone.

My whole heart aches,
But my body remembers too.
Because grief
doesn’t only live in my heart
It lives in my body too.

-Liz Newman

11/15/2025

SUMMITVILLE, IN – Judy Ann (Hodge) Lee, 81, passed away on October 24, 2025, at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis from complications as a result of an auto accident earlier in the month.

She was born on March 29, 1944, in Madison, Wisconsin to Howard and Margaret (Haefner) Butler. Judy wo...

11/15/2025

ALEXANDRIA, IN – Rebecca E. “Becky” Allen. 63, passed away unexpectedly in her residence on Thursday, November 13, 2025, from natural causes.

Becky was born in Anderson on June 6, 1962, to Ora and Nona (Cunningham) Allen and was a lifetime Alexandria resident. She was a graduate of Alexandri...

11/14/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

🌊 When Grief Tries to Drown You

11/13/2025

11/13/2025

MUNCIE, IN – Donna Jo (Felton) Welch, 43, passed away on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, in IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie following a brief illness.

A former Alexandria resident, Donna was born in Indianapolis on March 12, 1982, to Joseph and Marilyn Sue (Gross) Felton. She attend...