LOWMAN, Ben C.

LOWMAN, CRANE, KELLOGG, FESSLER, GUSTELUM, SHAFFER, TIDEBACK

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/16/2013 at 08:57:30

BEN C. LOWMAN

CLEAR LAKE - Ben C. Lowman, 81, of Clear Lake, died Wednesday (March 27, 2002) at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday at the First Congregational Church, 205 W. 10th Ave. N. in Clear Lake, with the Rev. Thomas Healey officiating. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until time of services on Saturday at the church. According to his wishes, his body was cremated. The family of Ben C. Lowman has requested that memorial contributions be made to Opportunity Village in Clear Lake or the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City, in his memory.

Ben C. Lowman was born on Oct. 10, 1920, in Estherville, the son of Roy and Bessie (Crane) Lowman. He graduated from Clear Lake High School and also attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids. Ben was inducted into the U.S. Navy on Nov. 23, 1942, where he taught electronics until his honorable discharge on Nov. 18, 1945.

He was united in marriage to Helen Mary Kellogg on March 27, 1943, in Kahoka, Mo. During his life Ben worked for Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids, Singer Sewing Co. in San Marcos, Calif., and was self-employed in electronics in San Marcos, before his retirement moving to Clear Lake. He enjoyed golfing and fishing.

He attended the First Congregational Church in Clear Lake, and was a member of the Clear Lake Country Club.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Helen Lowman, of Clear Lake; children, Kim Lowman, of Santa Fe, N. M., Terry Lowman and his wife, Diane, of San Diego, Locke Lowman and his wife, Vicki, of San Marcos, Calif., Lin Fessler and her husband, Brad, of Clear Lake, Kelly Gustelum and her husband, Rudy, of Oceanside, Calif., Jan Shaffer of Owatonna, Minn., and Roy Lowman of Opportunity Village in Clear Lake; 18 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; a sister, Marvis Tideback, of Aitkin, Minn., and a brother, Vic Lowman and his wife, Mary, of Phoenix, Ariz.; as well as other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and three brothers, Hyle, Irvin and Roy Lowman.