Virginia H. Lowery

Virginia H. Lowery
New Hartford
Virginia Harding Lowery, 91, of New Hartford, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. She was born in Bronxville, New York, on February 14, 1920. After moving to Waterville, New York, as a little girl, she attended the Waterville Central School and later graduated from the Holmquist School in New Hope, Pennsylvania. She took many courses at the Munson Williams Proctors School of Related Arts and Sciences as a young woman and later in life audited many Hamilton College courses. Virginia was married to Watson Lowery of Utica on January 11, 1942. Mr. Lowery died in 1985. Virginia is survived by her daughter, Carlile and her husband, Richard Schneider, of Brookfield, Wisconsin; her son, Watson (Chip) and his wife, Elizabeth, of Wallingford, Connecticut; her son, Brinck and his wife, Susan, of Essex, Massachusetts; and her daughter, Ann and her husband, Chub Bailly, of Clinton, New York. She also leaves grandchildren, Alexandra Lowery, Watson and Sam Bailly, Lindsey Cobbett (married to Tim Madden), Ali Cobbett Stafford (married to Ben Stafford) and Nicholas Cobbett, and great-grandchildren, Ella Stafford and Liam Madden. Virginia also leaves her sisters, Sally Frost, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Lowerre Simsarian, of Worcester, Massachusetts; and her sisters-in law, Rhondda Lowery Grant, of Denver, Colorado, and Anita Lowery, of Old Lyme, Connecticut. Virginia had great curiosity and read on all kinds of topics. She enjoyed traveling, the arts - particularly sculpture and architecture - music, geography, zoology, bird watching and was an avid needlepointer. A memorial service will be held in late October with the time and date to be announced. There will be no calling hours. The family will receive visitors at the conclusion of the memorial service. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to A Better Chance (ABC), P.O. Box 139, Clinton, NY 13323. Online messages of sympathy, go to: www.dfwefh.com