Leland Samuel Lowry

05/04/2004

Leland Samuel Lowry, 79, of 6 Hastings St. died Tuesday at North Adams Regional Hospital, where he had been admitted on Friday, April 30, following a brief illness. He was the former animal control officer in Adams and North Adams. He was born in North Adams Hospital on Oct. 19, 1924, son of Samuel George and Emma Westcott Lowry. The family resided in South Williamstown, and he was educated in the Little Red Schoolhouse and other Williamstown schools. He assisted his father on the family farm in South Williamstown until the outbreak of World War II. He entered the Army on Jan. 18, 1944, and served as a private first class with the 79th Field Hospital in the European Theater, including England and France. He received several medals for his service. Following his honorable discharge from the service on Feb. 11, 1947, he returned to Williamstown and was employed in construction with H.D. Moore for many years. He then was self-employed in trucking and general construction for 37 years, retiring in 1999. Mr. Lowry served as animal control officer in North Adams from 1974 to 1979 and in Adams from 1979 to 1998. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Adams and the Richard Reuther Post 152 American Legion of Williamstown and a former member of American Legion Post 160 of Adams. He leaves his wife, the former Sarah Leona Jones, whom he married on March 30, 1963, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y.; a daughter, Susan Sobon of Adams; four stepsons, whom he raised from a young age, Howard F. Randall and Police Officer Timothy E. Randall of North Adams, Allen R. Randall of Cheshire and Stanley D. Randall of Lunenburg; 13 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren. Another stepson, Thurman "Buddy" Randall, died Oct. 17, 1998. FUNERAL NOTICE -- Funeral services for Leland S. Lowry will be Friday, May 7, at 11 at the FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME FOR FUNERALS, West Chapels, 521 West Main St., North Adams, with the Rev. Donald Gray, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Adams, officiating. Burial will follow in Bellevue Cemetery. Calling hours at the funeral home are Friday one hour before the funeral. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory are suggested through the funeral home. He was predeceased by a sister, Hazel Ellsworth, and a brother, Allen Lowry.

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