Marian Rosella Wells was born in Montpelier July 31, 1926, the daughter of Alfred Jones and Mabel Ina Follick Wells. She graduated from Montpelier High School in 1944. She married Glenn Owens November 28, 1946 in Salt Lake City. She died June 16, 1997 in Grapevine, Texas and was buried in Pocatello, Idaho.