- Hold Final Rites March 31 for Lottie Lowry, 86
Funeral services for Mrs. George (Lottie Mauree) Lowry, 86, of Hopkins, Mo., held March 31 in Shum-Novinger Funeral Home in Bedford, were conducted by Rev. Carl Cummings. Mrs. Lowry died March 29, 1984 in Bedford Manor, Bedford. Interment was at Hopkins Cemetery, Hopkins, Mo.
Lottie Mauree Gray Lowry, daughter of Sherman Gray and Lizzie Miles Gray, was born at Pickering, Nodaway County Missouri, July 2, 1897. When she was a small girl she moved with her parents to Hopkins, Missouri where she grew to maturity and attended the public school.
On September 21, 1917, she was united in marriage to George Lowry at Maryville, Missouri. They lived in the Maple Grove Community northeast of Hopkins, Missouri where they engaged in farming until retirement when they moved to Hopkins, Missouri. Mr. Lowry passed away February 3, 1980.
Three children were born to bless this home and to share their love: Donald, Elizabeth and Ralph.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, three brothers, a sister, a granddaughter and a son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Left to cherish her memory are her children: Donald Lowry and his wife, Enola, of Bedford, Iowa; Elizabeth Calvin of Lenox, Iowa and Ralph Lowry and his wife, Lois, of Ashland, Nebraska; ten grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
Her family and friends will remember her as a kind and considerate loved one and she will be sadly missed by all those who knew her.
Bedford Times-Press (Bedford, Iowa), Thursday, April 5, 1984
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