1922
Jean
2004
Jean Lowery
August 4, 1922 — June 5, 2004
Jean M. Lowery, age 81 of Moline died Saturday, June 5, 2004 at River Park Healthcare Center, Rock Island.
Funeral services will be 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, 2004 at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Moline with Dr. Melvin L. Grimes officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Burial is at Riverside Cemetery, Moline. Memorials may be made to the family in care of Tabernacle Baptist Church, 2601-15th Street, Moline,IL 61265.
Jean was born August 4, 1922 in Moline, the daughter of Leo and Alice Maxie Golden, Sr. and the step-daughter of Henry F. Foy. She married Henry Woods. She later married LaVan Lowery.
Jean was employed at Black Hawk Area Special Education School as a teacher's aide for 20 years last working in 1987. She also worked as a nurses assistant and a meter maid. She was a deaconess at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Moline and a former member and deaconess of Olivet Baptist Church in Rock Island. She also was a former member of St. Paul AME Church in Moline. She was a member of the Senior Active Club, Moline Civic Club and the Association of Colored Women's Clubs , Inc. serving at the national, state and district levels.
Survivors include 2 sisters, Connie Guice of Chicago and Marion Guice of California, a brother-in-law, DeWitt Terry, 2 sisters-in-law, Erma Golden and Bernetta Foy, 1 step-grandson, Michael Lowery, many nieces and nephews and 2 childhood friends Willa Mixon and Stella Weldon and a host of friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, 2 brothers, Leo Golden, Jr. and Billie Foy and sister Harriett Terry.
Funeral services will be 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 9, 2004 at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Moline with Dr. Melvin L. Grimes officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Burial is at Riverside Cemetery, Moline. Memorials may be made to the family in care of Tabernacle Baptist Church, 2601-15th Street, Moline,IL 61265.
Jean was born August 4, 1922 in Moline, the daughter of Leo and Alice Maxie Golden, Sr. and the step-daughter of Henry F. Foy. She married Henry Woods. She later married LaVan Lowery.
Jean was employed at Black Hawk Area Special Education School as a teacher's aide for 20 years last working in 1987. She also worked as a nurses assistant and a meter maid. She was a deaconess at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Moline and a former member and deaconess of Olivet Baptist Church in Rock Island. She also was a former member of St. Paul AME Church in Moline. She was a member of the Senior Active Club, Moline Civic Club and the Association of Colored Women's Clubs , Inc. serving at the national, state and district levels.
Survivors include 2 sisters, Connie Guice of Chicago and Marion Guice of California, a brother-in-law, DeWitt Terry, 2 sisters-in-law, Erma Golden and Bernetta Foy, 1 step-grandson, Michael Lowery, many nieces and nephews and 2 childhood friends Willa Mixon and Stella Weldon and a host of friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, 2 brothers, Leo Golden, Jr. and Billie Foy and sister Harriett Terry.
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