Clackamas-Marion County OR Archives Obituaries.....Lowery, Martha Ellen June 21, 1921 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmail.com October 14, 2006, 4:04 pm Clackamas County News June 30,1921 Shock in Accident is Cause of death Mr Martha Ellen Lowery of Molalla died last Tuesday evening from a shock received in an automobile accident at Macksberg a few hours previous.She was in the Christ. Yost car,which was being driven by Clarence Yost,and who lost control of the machine,by running into a banl and over a pile of wood.The car turned turtle throwing out Mrs Yost,who escaped uninjured.One of the Yost girls received a cut on the arm,but none of the rest of the occupants were injured.Mrs Lowery was carried into a farm home near the scene of the accident where medical aid was summoned.She died of the shock as she was just recovering from a long illness from pneumonia. mrs Lowery was a native of Illinois and would have been 70 years of age on August 16.She had resided in Canby since 1889,recently making her home with her daughter at Molalla.After arriving in Clackamas County she first made her house in Liberal and for a short time lived in Macksberg,moving from there to Canby She is survived by a sister,residing in Kansas,and five children,George and John Lowery of Canby,Sam Lowery of Toppeniah,Wash.,Charles Lowery of Macksberg,and mrs Christ. Yost of Molalla.She also leaves 23 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the church at Molalla friday afternoon at 1 o'clock and internment was made in the Zion cemetary in Canby File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/clackamas/obits/l/lowery2248gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb