Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lowe, Edward P., 1958 

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EDWARD PARKER LOWE 

   FRANKLIN - Edward Parker Lowe, 74, farmer of the Franklin community, died 
at Raiford Memorial Hospital Tuesday afternoon.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Laura Mason West Lowe and the son of the late 
Benjamin Franklin and Laura Mattie Lewis Lowe.  He was a native of Southampton 
County and member of the Black Creek Baptist Church.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Guy B. Lowe of Franklin and 
Westmoreland Lowe of Disputanta, five grandchildren and four brothers, A.H. 
Lowe and Franklin McCoy Lowe of Wakefield, Luke Lowe of Ivor, and M.H. Lowe of 
Zuni, and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted today (Thursday) at 2:30 p.m. at the 
Holland Funeral Chapel, by the Rev. Len B. Allen, pastor of the Black Creek 
Baptist church.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Robert Lowe, Haywood Lowe, Alvin Lowe, Vernon Lowe, A.C. 
Lowe, Winston Lowe, Franklin Lowe and Earl Drewry.


Edward Parker LOWE, of Franklin, farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 28 Oct 1958, Franklin, age 74, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Sect. B, Plot 21*), Franklin, 
   30 Oct 1958, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 30, 1958, Sect. I, p. 6 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

His parents were buried at home, according to their D.Certs., but the site, in 
   the Corinth community, is not known (Dec 2017) to the SCHS Cemetery Project.
   They appear in the 1920 Census in Berlin & Ivor Dist. (e.d. 205; sheet 2B) 
   (Farm #34; Dwl #35; Fam #36).  Edward's family is adjacent (Farm #33; 
   Dwl #34; Fam #35).  [families re-numbered {overwritten}, indistinctly] 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 4, 1972, A-4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/l000l5ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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