Billy Lowe

October 1st, 1931 – September 30th, 2010 Funeral services for William Lawrence “Billy” Lowe, Sr., 78, will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, October 3, 2010 at Swift Creek Baptist Church. The Pastor Dan Blake and Mr. Ted DeBruhl will officiate with burial in the church cemetery. Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home is serving the family. The family will receive friends Saturday, October 2, 2010 from 4-6 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the MUSC Lung Transplant Center, 62 Ashley Avenue MSC 586, Charleston, SC 29425. Mr. Lowe was a member of Swift Creek Baptist Church. He was the founder and operator of Lowes, Inc. He served his country in the United States Coast Guard, and was an active member of the St. David‘s Darlington Masonic Lodge #72, Omar Shrine, Darlington County Red Fez & Jolly Jeepsters, and the Loyal Order of the Moose – Hartsville Lodge #1770. He was a dedicated and loving husband, father, and grandfather, and he will be greatly missed. Mr. Lowe, widower of Paula Ruth Lowe, died Thursday, September 30, 2010. Born in Darlington Co., SC, he was a son of the late Carey Lloyd and Myrtice Odom Lowe. Surviving are his daughter and son-in-law, Paulette Lowe (Daniel Lea “Dan”) Blake of Hartsville, SC; sons and daughters-in-law, William Lawrence (Cindy Shoemake) Lowe, Jr. of Hartsville, SC, Robert Randolph “Randy” (Lori Sims) Lowe of Hartsville, SC; grandsons, William Lawrence “Lance” Lowe, III of Hartsville, SC, David Tyler Lowe of Hartsville, SC, William Seth Lowe of Hartsville, SC. He was preceded in death by his sister, Annette Lowe Yarborough.