Connie Anne C.

Owen

Connie (Anne C.) Lucking Owen of Manchester, NH, passed away on November 11, 2026. She was born in the Bronx, New York, on August 13, 1935, the daughter of Edward Lucking and Anne Marie Brautigan Lucking. She spent her early years in Newark, New Jersey; Norwood, Massachusetts; and the Bronx with her parents and her older sister, Dolores Anne Lucking Goin.

In 1941, the family moved to Parkchester in the South Bronx, one of the original private housing developments. Connie attended St. Raymond's Elementary School and Villa Maria Academy, then graduated with honors from Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

After Seton Hall, Connie began her career in broadcast promotion at John Blair and Company and Robert E. Eastman and Company. While raising her young children in Connecticut, she returned to school and earned a Master's Degree in Counseling and Community Service from Fairfield University, with a focus on substance use disorders.

That degree opened a new chapter. Connie built a career as a counselor in Connecticut and New Hampshire. In 1987 she became Program Director at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, and she later worked with Resource Management Company in Concord. She went on to develop her own private counseling practice in the Nashua area.

Connie was also an active participant, facilitator and Board member of the RISE Program at Rivier University for several years.

She was predeceased by her sister, Dolores. She is survived by her sons, Christopher Owen and his wife, Donna, of Northwood, NH, and Michael Owen of Irmo, SC; her daughter, Valerie (Owen) Bourbeau and her husband, Bruce, of Manchester, NH; and her grandchildren, Alicia Owen, Scott Owen, Courtney Brown, Kyle Bourbeau, Jocelyn Bourbeau of NH, and Brianne Owen and Jacob Owen of Illinois.

In keeping with Connie's wishes, there will be no service. Donations in her memory may be made to the RISE Program at Rivier University. Checks can be made payable to Rivier University, with "RISE Program" in the memo line, and mailed to Rivier University, Office of University Advancement and Alumni Relations, 420 South Main Street, Nashua, NH 03060.

Assisting the family with arrangements is the Phaneuf Funeral Homes and Crematorium, Boscawen, NH.