Charlotte Louise Plummer Owen (January 13, 1918 - December 18, 2004) was an American clarinetist and bandleader.
Owen was born in Minneapolis into a family which had a dance band, with which she would play weekly while growing up.
She studied piano and saxophone, and at Eugene High School in Oregon was an award-winning clarinetist.
[2] On September 12, 1945 in Falls Church, Virginia,[3] she married Charles Owen, a percussionist and fellow musician in the Marines,[2] and raised a family while working as an orchestral clarinetist, teaching privately as well for over sixty years.
[1] In 1986 she became founder and director of the Ann Arbor Civic Band,[2] remaining in the post until 2001.