The Covington family practice patients have known since 2011 as Easley-Delones Family Medicine has a new name, and its new owner is someone many of them have already seen.
Mikayla Owen, a board-certified family nurse practitioner who joined the practice in 2024, now owns the clinic on Hwy. 51 South. It operates as Owen Family Medicine.
The change comes months after the practice lost both of the nurse practitioners whose names it carried.
Remembering the clinic’s namesakes
Debbie Delones, who co-owned the practice, died April 26 at her home in Atoka with her husband, David, and her daughter by her side. She was 60.
Delones spent more than 30 years in nursing. She earned her master’s degree in nursing from Union University in 2011, the same year the Covington clinic opened, and her obituary describes a practice where she treated every patient like extended family. Her staff remembered her as an experienced leader who helped make the office a warm and welcoming place.
Outside the clinic, Delones won awards for her ribs at competitive barbecue contests and spent quiet weekends at the river fishing with family and friends. Later in life, she took up hunting.
Jennifer Easley retired from the practice in May. In a May 13 Facebook post thanking her, the clinic wrote, “This is not goodbye, this is only see you later,” and told patients it would continue operating as normal.
Who is Mikayla Owen
Owen is a lifelong Tipton County resident and a Covington High School graduate. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Memphis in 2021 and her master’s degree in nursing in 2024.
While in graduate school, she worked as a cardiac transplant nurse at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis, caring for patients with advanced heart failure, heart transplant patients and patients with ventricular assist devices, which help pump blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
“Taking care of patients and their families has always been something I am incredibly passionate about,” Owen said.
She said she wants patients to feel welcomed, heard and comfortable at the clinic. “I believe health care should be personal, and I want every person who walks through our doors to feel like family,” she said.
Owen and her husband, Andrew, a firefighter-paramedic with the city of Covington, welcomed their third daughter Thursday. The baby joins sisters ages 3 and 16 months. When she is not at work, Owen said, she spends time with her family, at the lake or with a book. She said she enjoys just about every genre.
“I feel incredibly blessed for this opportunity and cannot wait to grow Owen Family Medicine while building lasting, meaningful relationships with our patients and their families,” Owen said.
If you need an appointment
Owen Family Medicine is at 1618 Hwy. 51 S. in Covington. To schedule an appointment, call 901-476-7777. The office fax number is 901-476-0007.
