Clarence George Lower and Gladys Elmira Hepler

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Husband Clarence George Lower ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 May 1899 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Ira Ellsworth Lower (1872-1941) 3 4
         Mother: Anna Belle Ruff (      -      ) 1 4

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       Marriage:  - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA

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Wife Gladys Elmira Hepler ²

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           Born:  - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA
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         Father: Albert James Hepler (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Louella Elmira Stahlman (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Lois Jane Lower ²

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           Born: 16 Feb 1925 2
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2 M David Hepler Lower ²

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           Born: 12 Apr 1936 2
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General Notes: Husband - Clarence George Lower

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After attending local grade and high schools, and the Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, he transferred to the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1922. He rounded out his preparation for a most important association with his father in industry by going to the Canton Actual Business College, Canton, Ohio, during the winter of 1922-23. During the summer between receiving his college degree and courses in business, he had worked with his father in the construction of the Bostonia Country Club, which his father had been asked to oversee. His career as a tile producer really began when he accepted a job as day laborer in the New Bethlehem Hollow Tile Company's works. In April, 1923, he became connected with the office department of the company, and when the concern was reorganized on January 1, 1927, he was admitted as a partner, together with his brothers, Lloyd Curtiss and Harold Jesse, and thereafter served mainly as general sales manager, while sharing in the management of the New Bethlehem Tile Company.
In civic life Mr. Lower was a member of the New Bethlehem Borough Council, and acted as judge of elections on many occasions. He was a Republican, influential in party circles. During the First World War, he enlisted in the Students Army Training Corps during his first year in Mount Union College (1918). Fraternally he was affiliated with New Bethlehem Lodge, No. 522, Free and Accepted Masons, and his college fraternity is Phi Kappa Tau. He was a member of the Bostonia Country Club, which incidentally he knew from under the ground to the traps on the eighteenth green. He was a member and ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church of New Bethlehem.

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General Notes: Wife - Gladys Elmira Hepler

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She was a native of New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and educated in the New Bethlehem High School and Indiana State Teachers' College, marrying shortly after being graduated from this institution. She was well known for her interest in music, having majored at Indiana State Teachers' College in preparation for a career as music supervisor in secondary schools. She sang well, was choir director at the First Presbyterian Church, and her fraternal affiliation was with New Bethlehem Chapter, No. 230, Order of the Eastern Star. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and of the Literary Club of the city. She was fond of gardening and was known for the quality of the roses and delphiniums.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 718.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 518.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 717.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 517, 520.