Person:Richard Crandall (2)

From Clay Crandall: Lowell owned a string of stores at different times. Red Brick store is from Huntington's East End and was Lowell's first store upon coming to Huntington in 30's. From 1939 to about 1946 owned a store in the city. It was on Norway Ave. and was in an area of the city called Gallaherville near the Gallaher Elementary School. After selling the store on Norway Ave. Lowell took his family on a summer trip to California. Upon returning in the fall of 1946 he bought a hardware and grocery store at 1205 16th street in Huntington. After the hardware store crashed and burned he bought a store in Salt Rock area. After selling the Salt Rock store he bought his last store in Pea Ridge which he sold in 1953 and went to work in the construction of roads, which he did until 1973. Lowell was very quiet in his later years but enjoyed a joke like most men. I went with Danny to help him move some stuff from his garage in Huntington to Michigan in 1975. It was a good trip we stopped at Cans Ham and had a great ham sandwich. Lowell was good to his grandchildren and children. He often made things for his daughters-in-law. I remember him helping me fix up my first car a 68 Mercury Monterey in 1976. He showed me how to work with power tools and took me out driving his car when I was 15 after he first came to Michigan. I looked up to my grandfather and respected him very much. I believe all the children and grandchildren did. He gave me some hand tools a few years before he died and they mean more to me than any other possession I have.