Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....B. F. Lowther January 1918
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Cedartown Standard, Thursday, January 31, 1918
Mr. B. F. Lowther, It was a shock to the entire community when it was learned 
Thursday morning that Mr. B.F. Lowther has passed away during the night, after 
a few days illness from pneumonia. He was one of our substantial and most 
highly esteemed citizens, the soul of honor in every relationship of life, and 
his death is a genuine loss to our community. Mr. Lowther was born near 
Baltimore seventy-two years ago last November, and began his railroad career as 
an office boy for the B. & O. Working his way up step by step, he became Master 
Mechanic of the I.B. & Q., and came here from Garrett, Ind., twenty-seven years 
ago to accept the position of the Superintendent of the East & West Railroad. 
When this road passed into the hands of the Seaboard, he went into business 
here, organizing the Cedartown Ice Co. and later adding a coal department. 
Forty years ago he was united in marriage with Miss Kate Backer, of Baltimore, 
who survives him with one son, Mr. Frank Lowther of Chattanooga, to mourn the 
loss of a devoted husband and father. Another son and daughter died several 
years ago. Mr. Lowther has served the city on the Water & Light Commission, and 
had been a member of the board of Stewards of the First Methodist church, 
serving as a member of the Missionary Committee of the church at the time of 
his death. Brief funeral services were conducted Saturday morning at the 
residence by his pastor, Rev. W.T. Hunnicutt, after which Mrs. Lowther and her 
son and her sister, Miss Jennie Backer, left with the remains for their last 
resting place at his boyhood home near Baltimore. The bereaved family have the 
sympathy of all in their great loss, a loss that is shared by the entire 
community. (Cedartown Standard, Thursday, January 31, 1918) 


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