Lloyd Curtiss Lower and Martha Marie Bowser

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Husband Lloyd Curtiss Lower ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Jun 1902 - 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: 17 Nov 1931 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 2

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Wife Martha Marie Bowser ²

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           Born:  - Oakland, Mahoning Twp, Armstrong Co, PA
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         Father: Ellsworth W. Bowser (      -      ) 2 5
         Mother: Gertrude Iona Shumaker (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Lloyd Curtiss Lower, Jr. ²

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           Born: 7 Nov 1932 2
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General Notes: Husband - Lloyd Curtiss Lower

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After being graduated from the New Bethlehem High School, in 1923, he was at Culver Military Academy a year, and spent the years from 1923 to 1927 at Mt. Union College; the following scholastic year in the University of Florida, and in between, summer of 1926, was a student at the University of Munich, Germany. During summer vacations from boyhood he learned a great deal about the production of tile, for he shared with his brothers the job of water boy, and worked in most of the departments of the company. However, when he started in business it was in association with his father as the partner and active manager of an automobile dealership in connection with a large storage and super service garage, under the trade name of the New Bethlehem Garage. This business was disposed of in 1933, after which Mr. Lower was secretary of the New Bethlehem Tile Company, devoting the most of his time to sales and promotional activities. He was a partner in the company beginning in 1927, and shared the general management with his brothers, Clarence George Lower and Harold Jesse Lower.
Lloyd Curtiss Lower was exceptionally active in organizational projects in the community as a member of the Golden Rule Association (Chamber of Commerce of New Bethlehem), of which he was president in 1931 and 1940; member of the Clarion County Chamber of Commerce, and the International Association of Lions' Clubs, from New Bethlehem. Fraternally he was affiliated with Lodge No. 203, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and while an undergraduate of Mount Union College, Ohio, was inducted into the Sigma Nu fraternity. A Republican in politics, he was not ambitious for public office. He attended the First Baptist Church.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha Marie Bowser

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After being graduated from the New Bethlehem High School, in 1926, she entered the Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was graduated with the class of 1930, and for a scholastic year prior to her marriage was a high school instructor in English, Latin and French. Educational and humanitarian activities always enlisted her hearty support and she served as president of the Junior Women's Club, a director of the New Bethlehem Red Cross Society, and was the founder of the Young Ladies' Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church, where she and her husband worshipped. Her fraternal membership was with New Bethlehem Chapter, No. 230, Order of the Eastern Star. Home, garden and travel were among her favorite hobbies.

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 517.

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.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 827.