OBIT: Charles Virgil LOWERY, 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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CHARLES VIRGIL LOWERY

Grantsville, Maryland

  Residents of this section were deeply shocked to learn of the untimely death 
of Charles Virgil Lowery, Jennings, who was accidently killed about 6:15 o'clock 
Friday morning while at work on the Savage River Dam project.  According to the 
report, Lowery was operating a truck from the shovel to a pit.  The accident 
occurred as he was returning from dumping his load of material.  In going down 
an incline along the River road, the truck got out of control.  It was thought 
either the air brake was not working properly or that he attempted to change 
from low gear into a higher one.  Witnesses said he swerved the truck inward, 
going up the embankment about twelve feet.  Whether he then fell or jumped from 
the machine was not known but as the truck rolled back down the bank the rear 
wheels passed over the man's head and chest, killing him instantly.
  Mr. Lowery was born near Meyersdale, but since boyhood he has resided at 
Jennings with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Platter, who reared him. He 
was 29.  About seven years ago he married Miss Carrie Platter.  She and their 
two small daughters, ages one and three respectively, survive.  Also surviving 
are his mother, Mrs. Savilla Robison, near Meyersdale, his foster parents, Mr. 
and Mrs. Jacob Platter, Jennings, one sister, Mrs. Cecil Wilburn, Jennings, four 
brothers, Carl, Earl and Kenneth Lowery, near Meyersdale, and Clyde Lowery, who 
is with the U.S. Army, a half-sister, Miss Rita Robeson, and three half-
brothers, Udell, Robert and Junior Robison, near Meyersdale.
  Funeral services were conducted at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning from the 
Jennings Methodist Church.  The Rev. Lawrence Bianchi, an Evangelist, near 
Johnstown, and Rev. Foster Bittinger, pastor of the Westernport Church of the 
Brethren, officiated.  Music was furnished by the choir from the Westernport 
Church of the Brethren.  Interment was in the Bittinger Cemetery.  Pallbearers 
were Stanley Wiley, William Wiley, Mahlon Hoover, Homer Butler, Osborn Yommer 
and Harold Yommer.

Meyersdale Republican, September 25, 1941