Mary Lowder

Mary Evelyn Kearns Lowder, 80, of Albemarle, passed away Sunday, July 7, 2024 at her home with family by her side.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday, July 12, 2024 at Zion United Methodist Church. Rev. Daniel Delany will officiate and interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Edwards Funeral Home in Mt. Gilead.

Mrs Lowder was born on August 7, 1943 in Montgomery County to the late Worth and Kathleen Thompson Kearns. She was a graduate of West Montgomery High School and retired from Wiscassett Mills. She also spent many years bookkeeping for PeeDee Electric.  She will be remembered for her love of gardening and working in her yard to grow beautiful flowers. In her free time, she enjoyed going out to eat with family and friends and flea marketing.. She loved all of her animals and pets and was a very talented pianist.  She was also a very generous person, who wanted to share what she had with others.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Van Lowder; brother: Bobby Wood Kearns; and son Joseph ‘JoJo’ Murphy McRae III.

She is survived by her children: Kevin McRae and Lisa Hurley (Todd) of Mt. Gilead,, and Juliane McRae Ingram of Colorado; grandchildren: Stephanie Perez Pedro, Spencer McRae, Andrew Hurley, Austin Hurley, Anna Hurley McNeill (Jake), Abigail Hurley, Jacksen Ingram, and Wyatt Ingram; great-grandchildren: Sienna Waddell, Skyla Wadell, Jayden Cooper, and Cade McNeill; brother: David Kearns (Cheryl) of Albemarle; and numerous Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Nieces, and Nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to Zion United Methodist Church PO Box 176 Mt. Gilead, NC 27306 or Tillery Compassionate Care 960 N First Street Albemarle NC 28001

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