Class of 1921

Birth: 8 Aug 1901, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 6 May 1978, Stanly County, North Carolina

Parents: 
Alfred Jackson Tucker (1871-1954)
Martha C. Price Tucker (1879-1906)

Siblings:
Paul Evan Tucker (1904-1974)
James H. Tucker (1906-1951)

Spouse: Reece “Reecy” Allen Lowder (1892-1959)
Married: 1 Jan 1937, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Children:
Reecy Olyn Lowder (1920-1987)*
Hallie Lowder Efird (1923-2013)*
Dwight Erskine Lowder (1926-2009)*
Claudine Lowder Dry (1927-2015)*
Claude Lowder (1927-1995)*
Edwin Lane Lowder (1938-2005)
Martha Sue Lowder Kosmides (1942-)
*Step-children

Burial: Fairview Memorial Park, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina
Source: www.findagrave.com, #158678738

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The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, NC), 26 May 1921, p. 1.

FINAL EXERCISES OF COMMENCEMENT AT MT. PLEASANT

… The Senior Essay Prize was won by Miss Celia Tucker, Concord, Route 5.

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Hickory Daily Record (Hickory, NC), 2 Sep 1922, 3.

Social & Personal

… Miss Celia Price Tucker of Concord, arrived in the city yesterday and will enter school at Lenoir College, stopping with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kuhn…

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News and Record (Greensboro, NC), 10 Jan 1937, 2C.

Miss Tucker Weds Reecy A. Lowder

Albemarle, Jan. 9. – In a private ceremony, Miss Celia Tucker, of this city, became the bride of Reecy Allen Lowder, also of this city, January 1, in the parsonage of St. John’s Lutheran church in Cabarrus County. The pastor, Rev. L. D. Miller, officiated, using the ring ceremony of the Lutheran church.

The bride wore a traveling suit of brown with contrasting accessories and a corsage of Talisman roses and valley lilies. She is the only daughter of Alfred J. Tucker and the late Mrs. Martha A. Price Tucker, of Concord. Mrs. Lowder received her education at Mount Amoena seminary, Lenoir-Rhyne college and the University of North Carolina. For a number of years she taught in the public schools of the state and for the past several years has been a member of the city school faculty.

Mr. Lowder is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Lowder, of Albemarle. For several years he has been connected with the postal service and is now in the United States mail service in Albemarle. Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Lowder left for a bridal trip to Florida. They will reside here.

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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC) 9 May 1978, p.6B.

ALBEMARLE – Mrs. Celia Tucker Lowder, 76, a retired teacher, died Saturday. Funeral is 11 a.m. today at Lefler Funeral Home.

Survivors are son, Edwin Lowder; daughter, Mrs. Michael Kosmides of Anaheim, Calif.; stepsons, Olyn Lowder, Dwight Lowder, Claude Lowder; stepdaughters, Mrs. Price Efird, Mrs. Billy Drye.