Lorene Potter Owen
Lorene Potter Owen, 85, of Signal Mountain, Tennessee, passed away on Monday, October 18, 2021.
She was a long-time member of Taft Highway Church of Christ and an active member of the Lone Oak Community for many years before retiring to Lake Tansi in Crossville, Tennessee. Lorene enjoyed a career teaching in the local Head Start program and helped manage the family’s local restaurant business in Chattanooga. In her later years, she spent most of her time as a homemaker, loving her family and cultivating her passion for wild-flowers and beautiful landscapes.
Lorene lived her life vibrantly and to the fullest. She was a kind, compassionate and happy soul who fully trusted in the Lord to care for and guide her path. She will be missed by so many.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Mary Pritchard and Ernest Pritchard; husbands, William ‘Bill’ Potter and Harold Owen, Jr; and three siblings, Helen Ferguson Edwards, Winfred Pritchard, and Ernest Pritchard, Jr.
Lorene is survived by six children, three stepchildren, one sister, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as many nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 21, and from 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, at the funeral home, followed by a chapel service at 12 p.m. with Clint Henley and Darrell Wyke officiating. Interment will follow at Hamilton Memorial Gardens.
The family wishes to express its gratitude for two of her special friends and neighbors as well as Hospice of Chattanooga for caring for her.
The family respectfully requests that social distancing, wearing masks, and all CDC measures be followed at the funeral home and cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Lorene’s name to Taft Highway Church of Christ, 554 US-127, Signal Mountain, Tn. 37377 or the Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 41428, Nashville, Tn. 37204.
Please share your memories of Lorene with the family at www.chattanooganorthchapel.com.
Arrangements are by the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory and Florist, 5401 Hwy. 153, Hixson, Tn. 37343.