Lucille Mae Lowin 1914 - 1997

LOWIN, GUMM, BAKER, LOKER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen -Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/14/2019 at 19:04:50

Sioux City Journal
28 April 1997

Lucille Mae Lowin, 83, of Sioux City died Friday, April 25, 1997, at a Sioux City hospital following a sudden illness.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Riverside United Methodist Church with the Rev. Merrill Muller officiated. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 to 8:30 p.m. today, with the family present from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Berkemier Funeral Home.

Mrs. Lowin was born March 16, 1914 in Wagner, South Dakota, the daughter of Gurden and Lillian (Gumm) Baker. She attended school at Wagner until moving to Sioux City in 1929. She then attended Sioux City schools.

She married Ekmer H. Loker on May 18, 1931 in Sioux City. The couple made their home in Sioux City. He died July 7, 1962. She married Raymond W. Lowin on October 15, 1966, in Dakota City. The coupe lived in Sioux City until moving to Phoenix, Ariz., in 1967. They returned to Sioux City in 1970.

She was employed at Morningside College Commons for several years and at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix. She was then employed at Dean Drug until 1976, when she retired.

She was of the Methodist Faith.

Survivors include three daughters, Elaine M. and her husband Robert E. Keegan, Janice E. Painter and Sharon and her husband Michael T. Miller all of Sioux City; two sons and their wives, Elwin E. and Barbara Loker of Sioux City and Norman D. and Pricilla Loker of Omaha, Nebraska; five step-children, two sisters, Marie and her husband Don Loker of Sioux City and Mabel Solomon of Merrill, Iowa; 13 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and several step-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by five brothers, Harold, Dick, Raymond, Jack and Clarence Baker, and a grandson, Michael Scott Keegan.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Jim, Dr. Timothy and Tom Loker, Scott Martin, Curt Painter and Rob D. Keegan.