WEATHERFORD, Okla. - Arra E. Lowry, 75, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1996, at Oklahoma City.
Services were at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Church of Christ with Bruce Lewis and Ritchie Hamm officiating. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery by Lockstone Funeral Home.
Mrs. Lowry was born and raised in Amarillo. She attended school in Amarillo and graduated in 1938. She attended nursing school at St. Anthony¹s Hospital in Amarillo.
She married Orlan J. Lowry in 1943 at McAlester. They lived in Altus and Carlsbad, N.M., before returning to Amarillo, where they lived from 1952 to 1975. While in Amarillo, she was a school nurse.
In 1975 they moved to Weatherford. She was a member of the Church of Christ and was active in the PEO, American Association of Retired Persons and NARFE.
Survivors include her husband; two sons, Tim Lowry of Weatherford and Jay Lowry of Fayetteville, Ark.; a daughter, Karen Tilley of Lubbock, Texas; a brother, J.P. English of Amarillo; a sister, Annelle Frass of Dallas; and seven granddaughters.
The family suggests memorials be to the Westview Boy's Home or High Plains Children's Home in Amarillo.