Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Tom Lowe
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   LOWE
   TRENTON - Tom LOWE was born August 13, 1916, in Weleetka. He died
   March 12, 1997, at Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City. Funeral
   services were held March 15 at Trenton Baptist Church, where he was a
   member and a deacon. Rev. J.D. ROBERTS and Rev. Malcom TIGER
   officiated. Pallbearers were Estecate Color Guard from Seminole.
   Burial was in the Proctor Family Cemetery in Hanna.
   He belonged to Alabama Tribal Town and was one of the the last
   Alabamans in Oklahoma. He spoke the Alabama language fluently, but he
   also spoke a generally understood dialect of the Mvskokvlke (Muscogee)
   language also. He was a machine gunner with the 164th Infantry Army
   during World War II, but he also was a driver for Gen. Douglas
   MacARTHUR. During his military service, he won the Victory Medal, Good
   Conduct Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal with one Bronze Star, and
   the APT Ribbon with one Bronze Star.
   He was preceded in death by his parents, Amos and Annie Beaver LOWE,
   and his wife, Mandy Proctor LOWE. He was survived by his daughter,
   Wanda WILLIAMSON of Hanna; his three sons, Amos LOWE and Thomas LOWE,
   both of Hanna, and Eddie LOWE of Texanna; thirteen grandchildren and
   26 great-grandchildren.