Sarah Phipps Lowe, 1860-1910

LOWE, PHIPPS

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 8/30/2012 at 09:20:29

Called to Her Reward

Mrs. J. S. Lowe, residing four miles north of Sioux Rapids in Herdland township, answered the final summons last Tuesday evening at five o'clock after an illness that has extended over the past six months. Mrs. Lowe began to show the effects of disease about the first of February of the present year and in company with her husband a trip to Chicago was made in March where the best specialists of the city were consulted and an operation was performed for malignant tumor. The operation served without doubt, to prolong her life but it was known that no permanent cure had been accomplished, although her last serious illness covered only a short period of time. Everything that medical aid and skill could devise and plan was brought into use but all efforts proved of no avail, the final summons that robbed the home of a faithful wife and devoted mother coming Tuesday afternoon and her earthly life ended without the tremor of a struggle.

The deceased was a lady who paid the strictest attention to her home, not caring for the frivolities of life but enjoying far more the thought of making those happy who were in the sphere of the influence of her life. As a neighbor she was always ready and willing to respond to the call of any worthy charitable deed and when sickness and death came to her, as it comes to all, many were the willing hands and hearts ready to assist. While not a member of a church, Mrs. Lowe was an attendant of the Baptist church when possible and her every day life was one full of good deeds and acts and was above reproach. Her death has cast a shadow over the home and her loss is an irreparable one. She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, J. S. Lowe, and three children, Rose, Olive and Kate, nineteen, sixteen and fourteen years old respectively, and her father, W. R. Phipps, and brother Frank Phipps.

Sarah A. Phipps, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Phipps, was born at River Falls, Pierce county, Wis., in 1860, her parents moving to this county one year later where she has since resided. In 1882 she was united in marriage to J. S. Lowe and to this union four children were born, three of them survive, the daughter Edith passing away six years ago at the age of eighteen. The mother of the deceased, Mrs. W. R. Phipps, passed away seven years ago. The deepest and most sincere sympathy is extended by the entire community to this family and it is hoped that the years to come will have better things in store for them than did the present one, as two other members of the family have been compelled to submit to operations recently.

Funeral services were held at the late home today at eleven o'clock, conducted by Rev. J. V. Wright and the remains tenderly laid to rest in the Fanny Fern cemetery—Sioux Rapids Republican-Press.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; August 24, 1910.

Interment in Fanny Fern cemetery
 

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