Our father, Maywood Berry Owen III, passed away in Houston, Texas on April 9, 2018, at the age of 75. Some folks knew him as Berry, but for almost his entire life he was known to his family and close friends as "Skipper." Skipper was born on March 4, 1943, at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Aside from eighteen months in junior high school in Dallas, he grew up in Tyler, Texas. He graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in 1961, and attended Baylor University. He graduated from the University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston in 1968, and served in the U. S. Air Force as a dentist from 1968 to 1970. Skipper returned to Tyler in 1970 with his young family, and practiced dentistry there for many years. In the mid-1980s, he moved to Houston, where he lived the rest of his life.
Skipper was an avid outdoorsman and sports fan. His maternal grandmother Nina McCormick Campbell taught him how to fish, and Mr. Nelson, an old market hunter, taught Skipper how to hunt during boyhood visits with his paternal grandmother Sadie B. Owen on Galveston Island. Skipper enjoyed bird hunting and fishing the Texas Gulf coast until late in life. He passed along his love for fishing and baseball, and took his children and grandchildren over the years on many fishing trips and to many Rangers and Astros games.
Skipper is survived by his son, Scott and Kelley Owen of Katy; daughter, Amy Demmon of Alameda, California; daughter, Laurie Owen of Austin; their mother, Judy Owen of Austin; sister, Patricia Owen of Houston; seven grandchildren, a niece and nephew, and many cousins.
Skipper was preceded in death by his father, M. Berry Owen, Jr., and his mother, Nina Long.
Services will be held Monday, April 16, 2018, at 11 a.m. at Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home and Cemetery, 6900 Lawndale St., Houston, Texas 77023, with public visitation 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, April 15.
Tommy Campbell, Cailean Demmon, Hayden Demmon, Andrew Martin, Rick Hughes, and Nick Nowak will serve as pallbearers.
