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Mrs. Lowes was a type of the best
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many choice varieties being found in her garden.  With her friends, of whom she had many, she shared them generously.  Many a life was brightened by these messengers of hers carrying with them perfume and sweet thoughts from the motherly woman whose face radiated kindness. No wonder that, when her friends gathered to pay their last respeits to hear earthly tabernacle, her casket was covered with floral tributes.

The funeral was held at Christie's Undertaking Parlors last Thursday and after a simple and impressive service conducted by the Rev. J. E. Thompson B.D. her body was carried to its resting-place by representatives of her pioneer and newer friends.  The pall-bearers were Messrs. D. Fergus, R. Sinclair, Levi Beck, A. P. Simpson, H. Talbot-Crosbie and B. W. Wallace.  Many friends gathered at the service and all were mourners.

The life-history of Mrs. Lowes reads as follows:--Born in Lincolnshire, England, Lettie Minton, daughter of George and Mary (Kirk) Barr crossed the ocean to Canada while an infant in arms.  Her parents settled at Cooksville, near Toronto, and her marriage to Alexander Campbell Ross took place in 1877.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross came west in 1883 to locate in York Farmers' colony here.  They landed at Whitewood, which was then the nearest railway point to York settlement, and at first took up residence in a small house they erected on the old townsite of Yorkton aftewards locating on the west half of 4-26-4 w. 2.

After the death of her husband in 1888 Mrs. Ross struggled on to raise her young family, marrying her surviving husband T. H. Lowes in 1901 and thereby relieving her from the severe struggle of widowhood.

Besides her husband there survive three sons by her first marriage namely:--G. A. K. of Willowbrook and A. S. and Le Roy W. of Springside; two sisters Mrs. W. C. Wilcox of Winnipeg and Mrs. Matt Beatty of Toronto and three brothers Edward, of St. Catherine's and George and Jay of Toronto.

With a keen and active mind. Mrs. Lowes took a most intelligent interest in all public affairs throughout her life and she was an ardent admirer of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to whose broad-mindedness and tolerance she attributed the welding of the two great races in the Dominion.

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[[bold]] CARD OF THANKS [[/bold]]

I wish to convey my deep sense of appreciation to those who by sympathetic word and kindly act sought to comfort and help me in my recent sudden sad bereavement.
T. H. LOWES.