HJR325 Summary

• Celebrates the life and legacy of Reverend James Curtis Owens, who died on March 26, 2016, at age 64
• Recognizes Owens as the first African American to receive a football scholarship at Auburn University in 1969, where he lettered as a fullback from 1970 to 1972 and played on the 1972 Amazins team
• Details his career as Assistant Football Coach at Auburn, Head Football Coach at Miles College, and employment with Tuskegee University and Auburn University before retiring in 2004
• Notes his entry into ministry in 1995 as Associate Minister of Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church and later as Pastor of Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist Church in Dadeville, Alabama from 2001 until his 2013 retirement
• Expresses the Legislature's gratitude for his abundant life and offers condolences to his family, including his wife of 41 years and three children