Mildred Evelyn Lowry, 95, of El Dorado, died Saturday, August 28 at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado. Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday Sept. 2 at First United Methodist Church in El Dorado.
Visitation with the family will be from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1 at Carlson Funeral Home, El Dorado. Private family interment will be held.
She was born on July 2, 1915 in Labette County, the daughter of William and Beulah Merle (Williams) Wilson, and graduated from Great Bend High School in 1932. She received her bachelor of education degree from Emporia State University in 1940. Mrs. Lowry taught school for a time, then served in the U.S. Army having attained the rank of sergeant. She owned and operated Lowry’s Nutrition Center in El Dorado for 32 years. She lived in El Dorado since 1953.
On June 9, 1946, she married Ray Ford Lowry in a ceremony in Wichita. He preceded her in death on April 21, 1980.
She was a member of the National Health Federation, Natural Health Products Association, enjoyed reading about and also writing about health. She was one of the first to home school in Kansas, and the first to defend home schooling before the Kansas Supreme Court.
Those who survive are sons Eldon Lowry and wife Sherry of Mission Hills, Kan.; Austin Lowry of El Dorado and Forrest Lowry and wife Jeanette of Ottowa, Kan.; two daughters, Bobbi Dunson and husband Richard of Kansas City, Mo. and Ramona Ryker and husband Eric of Wichita; two sisters, Opal Morford of California and Anna Kluth of Springfield, Mo.; grandsons David and Jeff Dunson and Carlton Ryker; and granddaughters Megan and Melissa Lowry.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, a brother, George Wilson and an infant brother.
Memorials in her memory for the Cancer Control Society may be left with Carlson Funeral Home, El Dorado, where friends may call. Condolences to the family can be sent to www.carlsoncolonial.com.
