This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lowther, Mark, Brown, Root Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/224 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, November 4, 1918 OBITUARY. >From Saturday’s Daily. Agnes Catherine LOWTHER was born December 18, 1853, at Carpenter, Ohio. Died Oct. 28, 1918, at the home of her son, Jesse LOWTHER, at Coleridge, Neb. Deceased had been failing in health the past ten years, due to a stroke of paralysis. June 26, 1918 she suffered a second stroke of paralysis from which she suffered almost constantly until God relieved her pain and called her to her reward. The funeral services were held at 2:00 o’clock P.M. Thursday, Oct. 31, at the residence of Jess Lowther, and the remains were conveyed to the Coleridge cemetery where she was laid to rest. The funeral services being conducted by Red. Handel COLLIER of the M.E. Church of Coleridge. Mrs. Lowther, whose maiden name was MARK, first opened her eyes to the light of day in Meigs county, Ohio. She grew to young womanhood amid the familiar scene of the old home where she was united in marriage in 1875 to John W. Lowther of that place. To this union was born five children, all of whom with the father survive to mourn the loss of the loved one. The children are Jesse and A.J. LOWTHER of Coleridge, Neb., A.S. LOWTHER of Wayne, Neb., Mrs. Irma BROWN of Valentine, Neb., and Mrs. J.A. ROOT of Murray, Neb. Mr. and Mrs. Lowther resided in Meigs County, Ohio, until 1899 when they moved to Cass county, Neb., where they resided until the spring of 1918, when they removed to Wayne, Neb. Mrs. Lowther was a kind wife and a loving mother, for whom all her friends and neighbors had great respect and love, and her life since girlhood has been consistent with the teachings of the Christian church of which she became a member in early life.