BUDDY AND GAIL LOWE

 The following bio was taken from page 290 of the book entitled “Rusk County History” compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

 Transcribed by Shirley Koym

 Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of Texas

  Buddy and I are native East Texans and proud to be a party of this great part of the state.

 Our parents are Jesse William and Betrick Gentry (See Bill Gentry family) and Virgil and Dosha Lowe.  I have two sisters, Judy Gentry Davis and Nelda Gentry Redding.  Buddy has two sisters, Doris Lowe Scott and Barbara Lowe Marshall, and one brother, Billy Lowe.

 I was born in Henderson, Rusk County, in 1946, and Buddy was born in Orange, Orange County in 1943.  We grew up not very far from each other but never met until in our teens when my sister had a date with Buddy.  They dated for a while; then we went off to college in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  After corresponding for a few months, my sister stopped answering Buddy’s letters as she now had eyes for someone else whom she later married.  I decided I’d write to Buddy myself.  When the Christmas holidays came, Buddy came home to see me.  We married three years later in November 1966 and had a double wedding with Judy, my sister, and Jack Davis, her fiance.  Dr. Hugh Smith, our beloved pastor of First Baptist Church, performed the ceremony, his first double wedding.

 I understand it is quite a task to arrange a wedding, but our double wedding was double trouble.  My sisters and I realized what different tastes we have especially concerning weddings.  After all agreed that we would have to make our marriages a success we would never have the nerve to go through that again.  However, it turned out to be a lovely and wonderful part of our lives, and I “think” we’d do it again.  The four of us try to get together each year on our anniversary, and we have a good time reminiscing.

 We live in Longview now, after having lived in Marshall and Houston.  Buddy is the controller for the southern division of Continental Can.  I am a teacher’s aide at a private school in Longview.

 We have two girls, Kristie, born in 1970, and Angie, born in 1973.

We like all sports, both attending and participating.  I play the piano and sing in the church choir.  Buddy is a fisherman and hunter.  He can tell many tales of his adventures, and our two girls love for him to tell them.

 Our families try to get together on holidays and as often as possible at other times.  We hope our children will carry on this tradition of “getting together” as it holds, many memories for each of us.

 Submitted by Bobby Gail Gentry Lowe