Edythe Lowry

TORRINGTON, WY . . . Funeral services for EDYTHE M. LOWRY, 82, will be held at 2:00pm on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at the First Wyoming United Presbyterian Church with the Reverend Steven Seng officiating. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Edythe died on October 9, 2009 at the Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Visitation hours will be held at the Colyer Funeral Home on Tuesday, October 13 from 4pm to 7pm. The casket will be closed at the church. Those who wish may direct memorial contributions to the Wyoming National Guard Yellow Ribbon Family Support Group, c/o Bonnie Petsch, 2417 West A Street; Torrington, WY 82240. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends are invited to send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com Edythe was born on November 26, 1926 in Casper, Wyoming the daughter of Claude and Edna Gwendolyn (Stevenson) Campbell. She was raised in Torrington, Wyoming where she received her education. On October 11, 1944 she married Roland "Bud" Lowry at the Methodist Church in Torrington. The couple moved to the family farm south of Steagall, Nebraska until May of 1963 when they moved to Torrington. Edythe worked at the Hested’s Store and Community Hospital, and later became the secretary for the State of Wyoming Hydrographers office in Torrington. She transferred to the Cheyenne office until her retirement. In 1986 Edythe and Bud moved to Tucson, Arizona before returning to Torrington and then Cheyenne where Edythe was living at the time of her death. Edythe loved doing handiwork and all of her family received pillow cases and T-towels. Edythe was very patriotic and flew an American flag outside of her home in honor of her grandson-in-law, Jeremy Brown, and all the troops currently serving with the Wyoming National Guard in Kuwait. She is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, BonnieLou and Verl Petsch, Jr. of Torrington; Susann and Lance Marrs of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Deborah and Kenneth Rohlff of Douglas, Wyoming; grandchildren, Wayne (Sara) Petsch and their son Colton; Lance Petsch; Chad (Sherrie) Lofink, and their daughters, Lisa, Jessie, Megan, and step-daughter, Heather and step-son, Eric; Jodi Rounds and her daughter Cheyenne; K.C. (Daphne) Rohlff and their sons, Christian and Aiden; and Shannon (Jeremy) Brown and their sons, Payton and Gregory and their daughter Cadence; one sister Dorothy Rogers and her husband Chuck of Torrington; and a sister-in-law Suzie Stone of Farmington, New Mexico; and a dear friend, Marion Eroski of Cheyenne. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bud Lowry; her mother Edna Dukes; and her step-father Elmer Dukes.

Edythe Lowry

November 26, 1926 - October 9, 2009