{"id":883,"date":"2018-07-19T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?page_id=883"},"modified":"2018-07-19T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:36:38","slug":"floy-whitney-owen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?page_id=883","title":{"rendered":"Floy Whitney Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1114\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?attachment_id=1114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1114\" class=\" wp-image-1114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180714_110958346-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180714_110958346-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180714_110958346-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180714_110958346-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180714_110958346-776x1380.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floy Owen receiving the Robe of Achievement, 2001<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Proverbs 31:17 states that a wife of noble character sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.&#8221; Floy Own was a wonderful example of this as a tireless servant in her family, her job, congregation, and in her denomination. She and her husband of more than 50 years raised five children and have 19 grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>In the time that Floy was a member of two SDB churches she served as a deaconess, a Sabbath School teacher, Steering Committee member, committee chairman, Women&#8217;s Society officer, Youth advisor, church treasurer,\u00a0 and was involved with the community outreach program.<\/p>\n<p>Floy was actively involved with Association serving on the Executive and Camp Committees and working on camp staff, both as a teacher and cook. Denominationally Floy was a member of General Council and served as President of the Women&#8217;s Board, representing Seventh Day Baptists at national and international meetings.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the recurring effects of multiple sclerosis she worked tirelessly with her husband to build and manage a multi million dollar company. She was also invited to be a guest speaker at Fuller Seminary to testify to God&#8217;s healing power on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Floy regularly gave God all the credit for her accomplishments and so was an inspiration for all she came into contact with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Proverbs 31:17 states that a wife of noble character sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.&#8221; Floy Own was a wonderful example of this as a tireless servant in her family, her job, congregation, and in her denomination. She and her husband of more than 50 years raised five children&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?page_id=883\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-883","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/883\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}