A pack-a-day cigarette smoker for 35 years, Jesse Owens died of lung cancer at age 66 in 1980. He was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 1990. Olympic Games 4-event Gold Medal Winner and Civil Rights Reformer.

It is one of the more significant historic cemeteries on Chicago's south side with burial sites of renowned figures like Mayor Harold Washington, civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, and Olympian Jesse Owens.

When Jesse Owens jumped and ran his way to four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics, putting the lie to Hitler's claims of Aryan racial superiority, his wife was at home with their first child. Although the expense of the trip was too great for them both to attend the Berlin Games, Ruth S. Owens was beside her track-star husband every step of the ...

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11668082/jesse-owens: accessed ), memorial page for Jesse Owens (3 Apr 1860–16 Apr 1935), Find a Grave Memorial ID 11668082, citing New Salem Cemetery, New Salem, Rusk County, Texas, USA; Maintained by Scotty Davis (contributor 46558058).

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26812245/olin_jesse-owens: accessed ), memorial page for Olin Jesse Owens (22 Aug 1881–23 Jan 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 26812245, citing Old Liberty Cemetery, Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Sherry G., Genealogical Research (contributor 47340731).

Apr 6, 2023 · Obituary Funeral service for Jesse Owens, Sr., 83, will be Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 1:00 PM at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Justin Smith officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing. Burial will be in Hartselle Memory Gardens.

Floyd Jesse Owens, 64, of Elora died Aug 3, in Huntsville Hospital. Services were Wednesday at Higgins Funeral Home with the Rev. Gary Gardner and the Rev. Dalton Warden officiating. Burial was in Miller Cemetery.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191061761/jesse_emmit-owens: accessed ), memorial page for Jesse Emmit Owens (27 Sep 1882–15 May 1967), Find a Grave Memorial ID 191061761, citing Memorial Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA; Maintained by Leonard Louis Meador (contributor 46801557).

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19916942/william_jesse-owens: accessed ), memorial page for William Jesse Owens (20 Mar 1847–14 Dec 1935), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19916942, citing Crowell Cemetery, Crowell, Foard County, Texas, USA; Maintained by Gary Todd (contributor 46921002).

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