Audelle Lee Williams Owen was born August 21, 1934, in Caddo County and passed away on April 18, 2025 at her home in Cache. She was adopted by Harold (Coon) Williams and his wife, Edna (King) Williams. She lived in Caddo County and attended school in Cyril in first grade. Then she moved to Fletcher in 1940 and attended Fletcher schools, where she graduated in 1952.

Audelle married Donald Joyce Owen in 1953. They lived in Lawton, Chickasha, Arapaho, Clinton and Shawnee before returning to Lawton in 1969. She finished her education in Lawton, attaining a B.S. degree from Cameron University. She worked as a substitute teacher for 3 years in Lawton Public Schools.

She taught porcelain art for more than 40 years, traveling to six states where she taught many classes and seminars. She held several offices in china painting organizations in Oklahoma and served as state president of the Porcelain Artists of Oklahoma. Audelle was also a charter member of the Redbud Club of Chickasha, the Lawton Porcelain Art Club, the Oklahoma Teachers Organization, the International Porcelain Artists & Teachers and the World Organization of China Painters. She wrote four books and many studies on techniques of china painting. Many of her porcelain works were published in magazines worldwide.

Audelle was a member of Chapter BY PEO Sisterhood and taught Bible class at First Baptist Church in Lawton. She had the gift of caring for those around her, and as long as she could drive, she called on and often took delicious meals or gifts of hand-painted china to her friends who were homebound.

She is survived by daughter Shari Owen Hawkins and husband Larry of Oklahoma City, son Harold (Andy) Owen and partner of Cache, three granddaughters, Ariel Hawkins Koerner and husband David of Midwest City, Grace Hawkins of Oklahoma City and Vikki Owen Tellez of Olympia, WA, brothers, Jim King and wife Shelly of Prescott, AZ, Hollis Howard of Sterling, Pat Howard and wife Annamarie of Havre de Chance, MD, and two special nephews, David Mayer and Howdy Lovelady.

Audelle was preceded in death by her adoptive parents, husband Don Owen, son Flake Lee Owen, two brothers, Wayne King and sister-in-law Barbara Canaday of California, and brother Don Howard and two sisters, Janice Lovelady and Maurice Wood, as well as her biological parents, Grace Kernodle Howard and Howard King.

Memorial gifts may be made in her name to the Greater Glory Project at First Baptist Church, 501 S.W. B Avenue, Lawton, OK 73501, fbclawton.org/giving, or Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 N.E. 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, omrf.org/donate.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.