Dr. Patricia Ann Lowry

Graveside Service will be Friday, April 12, 2024 at 11am EST at Crestlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, 2000 Marietta Blvd. NW, Atlanta, Ga 30318. Visitation is on Thursday April 11, from 5pm until 7pm at Chapel Hill Funeral Home. Pastor Richard E. Carney will be officiating.

Dr. Lowry is survived by her sister, Vicki and Richard E. Carney; brother, Robert “Bobby” and Judy Kramer; nieces and nephews, Kim and Trey Michiels, Michael and Susan Wright, Heidi and Daniel Neumann, Helen Kramer, Ken Kramer and Andrew Snell.

Dr. Lowry is preceded in death by her parents, William and Montine Jenkins Kramer; and sister, Jerrie Wright: son, Alan David Lowry;

Dr. Lowry was a devoted educator for 30+ years. Dr. Lowry started in elementary education and earned her Doctorate Degree in education, serving as a Professor at JSU. She was a devoted mother and beloved sister.

On May 31, 2012, Dr. Patricia Kramer Lowry retired from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the College of Education and Professional Studies, and Jacksonville State University. She had served the University for more than twenty-five years as an assistant professor, associate professor, department head, and professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She had taught most of the courses, both undergraduate and graduate, in all areas – social studies, science, mathematics, and general methods - except those in reading and language arts.

She also taught at the University of Alabama for five years from 1982. With the years in Tuscaloosa, that gave her over Thirty years of teaching in the Teacher’s Retirement System of Alabama.

She was assigned to the basement of Ramona Wood the first several years. The joke was always when you needed Dr. Lowry she would be in the basement. Of course that is where most of her classes were taught in this building, Room 108. She is responsible for getting the ugly gold carpet pulled up and replaced with red and white tiles. She had severe allergies and after the second sinus surgery the dean decided to replace the carpet with tile in Room 108. When the computer lab in Room 210 was given new furniture, she went to Mike Zenanko and asked for the old tables and cushioned chairs. That is the set-up now for Room 218 in Ramona Wood Hall.

Her favorite years of teaching came during the time that she taught the undergraduate science methods courses and the graduate mathematics methods courses. She loved to be up walking around the classroom, setting up experiments for the science class, or demonstrating how to use specific math manipulatives in teaching. Toward the end of her career, she taught general methods courses for both undergraduates and graduates in the EED program area. Those are the courses she ended with upon her retirement.

In elementary schools today, there are many teachers where her influence is felt. A smile would come to her face when they remember something special from her classes. She always liked the “hands-on or manipulatives” from the science and mathematics courses. In addition, several of her students are employed as adjunct or prorata instructors in C&I. Also, a few of them are employed by the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI).

In lieu of flowers please make a donation in Dr. Patricia Ann Lowry's name to the JSU Elementary Education Department.