From England to Batavia, late music director brought standards and passion for music
The way Jim Owen tells the story, his father Frank had very high standards when it came to music, and not every Owen in the family made the cut. “My sister Kathy was a very good singer, and my brother Robert was a very good singer, and then there’s Jim,” the honorary Mayor of Redfield Parkway said, adding that his father wasn’t mean about it. “He was very encouraging of me, he