Laura Elizabeth Lowry

Tupelo - Laura Elizabeth Squier Lowry, 104, died Sunday, November 14, 2010, at the Reed Green House At Traceway Retirement Community. She was born August 24, 1906, in Nicholson, PA to Boyd and Alice Squier. She graduated from Nicholson High School and Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA with a degree in home economics. She married Earle Samuel Lowry May 4, 1928, and later moved to Orlanda, Fla. where he practiced optometry until his death in 1962. She was a school teacher before her marriage, a homemaker, assisted in a daycare nursery program, and following her husbands death, worked for Jordan Marsh in the fabric department until her retirement. She was a beautiful seamstress and loved to do many kinds of needlework. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Orlando, serving as a teacher for five-year-olds for many years. When First Baptist Church relocated she became a charter member of Downtown Baptist Church, also in Orlando. She moved to Tupelo in 1993, and resided with her daughter and family until moving to Traceway. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Tupelo upon her death.

Graveside Services will be 3 p.m. Thursday at Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando, Fla. with Dr. Carey Bates officiating. W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.

Survivors include her daughter, Betty Lee Sisk (Bill) of Tupelo, MS; two grandsons, Alan Sisk (Ann Marie) of Nashville, TN. and David Sisk (Amanda) of Mt. Plesant, SC; four great-grandchildren, Ella Sisk, Lowry Sisk, Bailey Sisk, and Xan Sisk; and a sister, Doris Ravel of Colora, MD.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers, Leigh Squier and Oliver Squier; and sisters, Kathryn Beardsley, Mabel Stevens, and Frances Squier..

Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to Calvary Baptist Church Building Fund, PO Box 1008, Tupelo MS 38802.