Obit: Lowery, Nellie (1892 - 1962) 

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Surnames: Lowery, Gobin, Krause, Polekia
 

----Source: Marshfield News Herald  Monday 7 May 1962 P. 5 C. 1
 

Lowery, Nellie (8 OCT 1892 - 5 MAY 1962)

RITES SET FOR AREA RESIDENT

Granton:  Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Gilbertson Funeral Home for Mrs. William Lowery, 69, route, Granton, who died Saturday afternoon at her home.  Henry Elmhorst will officiate and burial will be made in Windfall Cemetery.

The former Nellie Gobin was born Oct. 8, 1892 in Sabin.  Her parents died when she was eight months old.  She was cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dary, and received her education in Sabin.  She was married Nov. 8, 1914 to William Lowery.  The couple had lived on their present farm since 1917.

SHe is survived by her husband, three sons; Charles, Centralia Wash.; Marvin, Eau Claire and Glen, Milwaukee; a daughter, Mrs. Felix (Lola) Krause, Loyal; 17 grandchildren, a great-grand child; a brother, Sydney Gobin, Thomaston, Conn.; and a sister, Mrs. Beatrice Poleskia, Chicago.

She was preceded in death by a daughter and a brother.