Margaret Knight Owens

Raymond "Ray" Dempster
March 25, 2008
þStocks of Local Interest
March 27, 2008
Raymond "Ray" Dempster
March 25, 2008
þStocks of Local Interest
March 27, 2008

Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Margaret Knight Owens, 82, a native of Texas and a resident of Houma, La., died Wednesday, March 19, at 7 a.m.


She is survived by her daughter, Claudine Gveniot.


Wild Geese Poem by Mary Oliver:

You do not have to be good.


You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.


You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

No services are scheduled.

Samart Funeral Home of Houma is in charge of the arrangements.