Edmund B. Lowrey Jr.

LOWREY Edmund B. Lowrey Jr., age 88, of Ansonia, entered eternal life Saturday, October 21, 2006 at Griffin Hospital, Derby. Mr. Lowrey was born November 11, 1917 in Stratford, son of the late Edmund B. and Edna (Scott) Lowrey Sr. and had been a lifetime Stratford resident before moving to Ansonia 18 years ago. He was a United States Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, having served in India from 1943 to 1946. He was a 60 year member of Stratford's Raymond Goldbach Post 9460 having joined in 1947. He was Post Commander in 1968 and was a veteran volunteer in the West haven VA Hospital with more than 15,000 hours. He was a life member of the National China-Burma-India Veteran Association and received the National American Award from the China - Burma - India Association. He was also a member and past Jr. Vice Commander of the Delaware Valley Basha, Philadelphia, Pa., the Connecticut Yankee Basha and the Fairchester Basha, New York. Survivors include his brother, James Lowrey of Ansonia; his two sisters, Edith Spodnik of Stratford and Edna Capen of West Virginia; and many nieces and nephews, including Barbara Moyer, Karen Spodnik, Patrick Kiley, John Kiley, Patricia Kiley, Mary Shea, Susan Winkler, Jennifer Rasmussen, John Lowrey, Joseph Lowrey and Kathy Shetty. Friends are invited to attend his funeral service on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. in the William R. McDonald Funeral Home, 2591 Main Street, Stratford and at 10:30 a.m. in Saint James Church, Stratford for a Funeral Mass of Christian Burial. Interment with military Honors will follow in the State Veteran's Cemetery, Middletown. Friends may call Wednesday evening from 4 to 8 p.m.