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Baxter E. Lowder Article

Cannon News
Kannapolis, N.C.

Baxter E. Lowder

Baxter E. Lowder will retire as first shift head loomfixer in Plant 1’s No. 1 
weave April 5 after 51 years of Company service.  All of his service was in No. 
1 weave.  He started as a sweeper and then became a weaver and loomfixer 
before taking the position of head loomfixer about 20 years ago.  A native of 
Stanly County, he moved to Kannapolis with his family when he was about 10 
years old.  He is married to the former Pauline Tanner of Georgia, who worked 
in the Pant 1 sheet department about 36 years before retiring last July.  They 
have four children including Kenneth Lowder and Gail Ballard of Gold Hill 
area, Michael Lowder of China Grove and Diana Rowia of Concord.  The 
family includes four grandchildren.  Mr. and Mrs. Lowder resides [address 
removed], Kannapolis.  “I’ve enjoyed it,” Mr. Lowder said in regard to his 
Company service.  “I’ve met some of the finest people in the world.”  He noted 
that he has seen about five changes in machinery while working in No. 1 
weave.  “We’ve really made a lot of progress in those years,” he said.  A 
member of Franklin Heights Baptist Church, he served in the Navy three years 
during World War II and spent most of that time in the South Pacific.  In regard 
to retirement plans, he said he plans to spend his time fishing, gardening, 
raising flowers and hunting deer and quail.  Working for Cannon has been a 
family affair for Mr. Lowder and his brothers and sisters.  A sister, Ruby 
Krimminger is a first shift weaver in No. 1 weave. A brother, the late Clifford 
Lowder, worked in No. 7 slasher.  Another sister, Lula Emerson, worked in No. 
6 drawing room before retiring, and Mary Moore worked in No. 2 weave and 
drawing before leaving the Company.  Another brother, Jason, worked in No. 1 
weave prior to retiring.