Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lowrey, Vira (Gates) (Mrs. Colby) (Mrs. Frank) March 8, 1944
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - March 9, 1944
          VIRA LOWREY DIED WEDNESDAY MORNING
   Vira and Myra Gates, twin daughters were born to Dr. and Mrs. Augustus Gates on
Autust 30, 1866, in 
Rozand township, Eaton county.  After the death of Dr. Gates the family moved to
Charlotte.  From here Vira 
went to Chicago at the age of 18.  She was employed there by Marshall Field & Co.
store.  During her stay 
there she married a man by the name of Colby from whom she was divorced later, and
she returned and she 
and her mother came to Lake Odessa where she married Frank Lowrey on December 28,
1895.  They spent 
their married life in Lake Odessa excepting a couple of years near Galveston, Tex.
   This union was dissolved by divorce in about 1918 and Mrs. Lowrey, who was a
dressmaker, milliner and 
tailoress of exceptional ability, found ready employment at Traverse City, Grand
Rapids and finally settled in 
Lake Odessa buying a home on Fifth Avenue.  About eight years ago she sold her home
and rented the north 
side rooms of the Dann Printing Co. building and handled the shoes for the
Wear-U-Well Co.
   Mrs. Lowrey was an exceptional seamstress, a loyal member of the Rebekahs, and
one time was affiliated 
with the Congregational church.
   Surviving is a brother Sanford Gates and a niece and nephews of El Monte, Cal.. 
It is not known here where 
the twin sister, Myra, is.
   Mrs. Lowrey was aided by her friends in her failing health, and her last days by
her friend Mrs. Scott Carr.
   She was public minded, loved flowers, and hated dogs, always wanted everything
done right.
   The Funeral will be held from the Wortley & Baine chapel tomorrow, Friday,
afternoon at 2 with the Rev. J. W. 
Winger, pastor of the Lake Odessa Congregational church, officiating.  Burial will
be in Lakeside cemetery/


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