Rev Edwin Lowe,
born 30 September 1923, died 9 March 2009
Eddie Lowe was an exemplary parish minister, whose training in the 1940s then represented the educated ministry at its best, with a broadly based arts degree followed by a bachelor of divinity course which covered the principal areas of biblical scholarship, church history and systematic theology in depth.
Eddie Lowe was born in Port Glasgow, and educated at Port Glasgow and then Greenock High Schools. His arts degree at Glasgow was interrupted by war service with the Royal Artillery (Signals) and while taking his divinity degree at Trinity College, he was student assistant at the Mid-Kirk in Greenock. In 1950 he was ordained and inducted to his first parish in Bothwell where he stayed for seven years. He then moved to Saltcoats North on the edge of a large housing scheme which was then being built, and where a new church and hall had been built two years before Lowe arrived. After a six year ministry in Saltcoats, Eddie Lowe moved to Aberfeldy, where the then Presbytery Clerk, the redoubtable Kenneth MacVicar, remembers a very popular, level-headed minister who did sterling work in the Perthshire town.
In 1971 Eddie Lowe moved to Caldwell, the parish name of the village of Uplawmoor, where he continued to exercise a first class ministry: a fine pastor, a thoughtful preacher, the church’s place in the community was safe in Lowe’s hands during his seventeen years there. In the Presbytery of Paisley, of which he was both Business Convener and Moderator, he was a source of wise counsel and greatly respected. He was not someone who spoke at every meeting, but when he did speak he was listened to with great respect.
Lowe retired in 1988 to Neilston. His wife Grace predeceased him as did a daughter Christine. He is survived by his two sons David and Kenneth and their families.
Published in The Herald.