Death came to Russell Lowman at 6:30 p. m. Friday, March 24, at the Clinton County hospital, Frankfort, from complications following surgery. He had been ill since March 13. Mr. Lowman, who was 61, was a farmer and lived on the Lowman farm north of Mulberry.
He was born near Mulberry, October 13, 1899, a son of Wilbert E. and Laura (Slipher) Lowman. On October 6, 1928, he and Etta Laughner were united in marriage.
Survivors are the widow; a son, James, at home; a daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Noble of Lincoln, Neb.; four grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. Laura Lowman of Mulberry; five sisters, Mrs. Mildred Butterfield of Middletown, Ohio, Mrs. Ruth Miller of Webster Grove, Mo., Mrs. Dorothy Summerville of Jamestown, Ind., Mrs. Fern Harshman of Chinook, Mont., and Mrs. LaGreta Reely of Missoula, Mont., and four brothers, Bruce A. of Columbus, Ohio, J. C. of Worthington, Ohio, Donald of Lafayette and Eugene of West Lafayette.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Johnson Funeral Home, with the Rev. William M. McClintock officiating. Burial was in the Fair Haven cemetery.
-- The Mulberry Reporter, March 30, 1961
Family Members
Parents
Wilbert Elmore Lowman
1867–1942
Laura Belle Slipher Lowman
1870–1963
Spouse
Etta J Laughner Lowman
1904–1986
Siblings
Fern Olive Lowman Harshman
1891–1990
Ralph Emerson Lowman
1893–1955
LaGreta Lowman Lowman Reely
1897–1990
Bruce A. Lowman
1898–1975
Mildred Irene Lowman Butterfield
1901–1997
Dorothy Lowman Sommerville
1906–1976
John Clark Lowman
1908–1992
Donald Wilbert Lowman
1909–1996
Eugene Sidney Lowman
1915–1996
Children
SGT Beatrice "Bea" Lowman Noble
1929–2013
