SYLVIA LOWE

1926 - 2022

LOWE--Sylvia Stallings. Born in New York City on April 22, 1926, to Laurence Tucker Stallings and Helen Poteat Stallings, and died in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 27, 2022. A graduate of the Brearley School and Bryn Mawr College, she was a poet, writer, editor, book critic for the Herald Tribune and other newspapers, and translator. Her poetry was published in Harper's and The New Yorker, and her edited books include Andrew Muir's William Marsh Rice and his Institute: A Biographical Study (Rice 1972), contributions to The Papers of Jefferson Davis (Rice 1971-2015), and a translation of Emile Male's Art and Artists of the Middle Ages (Black Swan Press 1986). As editor she worked at Rice University and at the (formerly Georgetown) Center for Strategic and International Studies. Married to Donald R. Morris from 1953 to 1973, she raised four children in Berlin, Paris, Kinshasa, Houston, and Washington, and was married to William W. Lowe until his death in 2016. She is survived by her children, Sarah Morris (John Papadopoulos), Michael Morris (Kelly Cassaday), and Julia Kashkashian (Dikran Kashkashian), granddaughter Helen Isabel Morris, and five stepchildren and families; she was predeceased by her sister, Diana Poteat Hobby, and daughter Margaret Helen Morris. A longtime resident of Alexandria, Virginia, she remained deeply attached to her family home in North Carolina, loved and cared for all her life. Gracious and generous to all, Sylvia is deeply missed by her family, friends, and neighbors. Burial arrangements are private, with a memorial service in the fall.