Frances Eloise Owens LeSage

A retired salesperson with Hancock Fabrics on Airline Highway and a native of Pike County, Miss., she died at 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009, at her home in Central. She was 81 and a member of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. Visiting at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East, 11000 Florida Blvd., on Friday, Feb. 27, was from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Visiting resumes at the church on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m., with the Rev. Michael J. Moroney, celebrant. Interment in the church cemetery. Survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Nadine and Bill Witt and Lisa and Joel Mayo; sons and daughters-in-law, Dave LeSage, Terry and Mickie, Thomas and Susan, Stephen and Penny and James and Christy LeSage; brother and sister-in-law, Dewey and Arah Owens; grandchildren, Brian, Shannon, Tammy, Melissa, Rachel, Christopher, Molly and Julia LeSage, Sarah and Emily Witt and David and Stephen Mayo; and stepgranddaughter, Autumn Gray. Preceded in death by her husband, Cyril T. LeSage; mother, Dixie O'Callaghan; father, Ira Lewis Owens; sister, Marjorie O. Smith; brothers, Ira C. and Henry R. Owens; grandson, Matthew LeSage; and daughter-in-law, Donna O. LeSage. Pallbearers will be her grandsons and nephews. Memorial donations may be made to St. Alphonsus Building Fund, 14040 Greenwell Springs Road, Greenwell Springs, LA 70739.