Robert M. Lowe

Robert M. Lowe Sr. of Selmer, Tennessee, formerly of Murray, Kentucky, was born on September 15, 1925 in Heath, Kentucky to the late Herbert A. and Vertis Mae Johnson Lowe.



Mr. Lowe was a graduate of Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. He was a retired Chemical Operator for Arkema Corporation in Calvert City, Kentucky and a substitute Teacher for various school systems in Kentucky and Tennessee. Mr. Lowe was a member of Eastview Baptist Church in Eastview, Tennessee where he had served as Deacon. He was a past Gideon International speaker and had served as an Elder in two Cumberland Presbyterian Churches. He served his country honorably during World War II in the United States Navy and was a 50 plus year Mason of various lodges.



Mr. Lowe departed this life on Thursday, September 22, 2011, in Adamsville, Tennessee at the age of 86 years and 7 days.



Survivors are his wife Myra Lowe of Selmer, Tennessee; a daughter, Risa Lowe of Murray, Kentucky; four sons, Robert Lowe, Jr. and wife Burnette, Randy Lowe and wife Mary, Rodney Lowe and wife Cindy, Ricky Lowe and wife Melonie, all of Murray, Kentucky; two sisters, Dorothy Sims of Reidland, Kentucky, Sue Carol Lowe of Camden, Tennessee; two brothers, Michael W. Lowe and wife Deloris of Fulton, Kentucky, Herbert W. Lowe and wife Carol of Hernando, Florida; three step-children, Teresa Bugg and husband Harold of Huntsville, Alabama, Terry Foster of South Carolina, Tim Foster of Selmer, Tennessee; 7 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, 4 step-grandchildren, 2 step-greatgrandchildren.



Other than his parents, Mr. Lowe was preceded in death by two sisters, Betty Gilbert and Ouida Hall, a brother, James William Lowe, and his first wife Mildred K. Lowe.