Guy Owen (figure skater)

Guy Rochon Owen (August 22, 1913 – April 21, 1952) was a Canadian figure skating champion.

In 1938 Guy Owen married Maribel Vinson, nine-time United States ladies figure skating champion,[1] and settled in Berkeley, California.

They divorced in 1949 and she and the daughters moved back east to the Boston area in 1952, where they lived with her recently widowed mother in Winchester.

[5] While visiting his parents in Ottawa, Owen died at age 38 of a perforated ulcer on April 21, 1952.

[6][7] His ex-wife and daughters died nine years later in the Sabena 548 plane crash in Belgium, which killed the U.S. figure skating team in February 1961.