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Claude C. Lowder Obit

August 6, 1973
Gunshot Fatal to Claude Lowder

Claude Caldwell Lowder, 77, of 2305 S. Main St. died Sunday as a result of a 
pistol wound which downtown Kannapolis police said was self-inflicted.  The 
shooting occurred at 2:15 p.m., police said.  A bullet from a .38-caliber pistol 
entered Mr. Lowder’s right temple.  Funeral services for Mr. Lowder will be 
conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. John’s United Church of Christ by Rev. 
Mark Andes and Rev. Frank K. Bostian.  Interment will follow in Carolina 
Memorial Park.  The body will remain at Whitley’s Funeral Home until time 
for rites, and family will receive friends there from 7 until 9 p.m. today.
Mr. Lowder was a native of Stanly County, son of the late Daniel Monroe 
Lowder and Mrs. Julia Decker Lowder.  He was employed in No. 2 weaving 
department at Connon Mills Plant 1 until his retirement in 1964.  He had lived 
in Kannapolis since 1920 and was a member of St. John’s Church.  He was an 
army veteran of World War I.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lillie Cauble Lowder; two daughter, Mrs. Ernest 
Huffman of China Grove and Mrs. Richard Cress of Broadway; a son, Glenn C. 
Lowder of Landis; a sister, Mrs. Arthur Penninger of Morganton; six 
grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.