Obituary Report for August 16, 2002
Sparta resident and White County native Frances Pauline Lowery Rowland, 78, died Aug. 13 at White County Hospital.
A homemaker, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Edna Knowles Lowery; and was preceded in death by her husband, Jeral Ross Rowland; daughter, Donna Carole Hash; and brothers, Hugh Gordon Lowery and W.H. Lowery.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Gail and Michael Adcock of Sparta and Marilyn and Danny Jolley of Doyle; son, Jeral Stanton Rowland of McMinnville; brothers and sisters-in-law, George and Mildred Lowery of Sparta and Lon M. and June Lowery of Chapin, S.C.; grandchildren, Deneane and Mitch Robbins, Jerry and Kathryn Adcock, Jennifer Jolley, Dana Jolley, Christy and Michael Bumbalough, Lisa and Rocky Brock, Tammy and Jason Snodgrass, Kimberly and Jerry Martin and Rebecca and Alan Gibbs; great-grandchildren, Kayleigh Robbins, Hyle Robbins, Hayden Robbins, Lindsay Snodgrass, Kelsi Snodgrass, Dillon Rowland, Bailey Martin, Brennan Martin, Dakota Gibbs, Erin Yott and Mary Bumbalough; several nieces and nephews; sisters-in-law, Jean Lowrey and Dale Lowery, both of Sparta; and brother-in-law, Horace Rowland of Walling.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. today at Hunter Funeral Home in Sparta with Fate Wilson officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery.
Hunter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Aug. 16, 2002