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Lowther was a [[business]]man and an inventor of fishing lures and board games.<ref name=funeral/> While in his seventies, he worked with youngsters at numerous area high schools and [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] to demonstrate his knowledge of athletics.<ref name=bio/>

Lowther was a [[business]]man and an inventor of fishing lures and board games.<ref name=funeral/> While in his seventies, he worked with youngsters at numerous area high schools and [[Louisiana College]] in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] to demonstrate his knowledge of athletics.<ref name=bio/>

Lowther outlived by a year and a half his namesake son Robert "Robby" Lowther (1948-2013), who like his father graduated from Bolton High School and LSU, from which he received a basketball scholarship, and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The junior Lowther also played [[baseball]] and[[ golf]]. He held a [[Juris Doctor]]ate  from the  [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center. For a time while he resided in Many in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana, he practiced law and owned ''The Sabine Index'' weekly [[newspaper]]. He established a horse farm, "Beau Salael," in Blanchard north of [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish, where he raised thoroughbreds. He subsequently relocated to Covington in St. Tammany Parish,  where he continued to practice law.<ref name=rcljr>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?pid=166782851#sthash.WGMZD8Au.dpuf|title=Robert Carswell "Robby" Lowther, Jr.|publisher=''[[Alexandria Town Talk]]''|date=September 4, 2013|accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref> Lowther and his wife, the former Merriam Hanesworth (born March 1926), have two surviving children, Bradley Hanesworth Lowther (born November 1950) of Baton Rouge, divorced from Cynthia Chaudoir Lowther Cortello,<ref name=brianlowther/> and  Martha Merriam Burns (born c. 1956) and husband, Michael Eugene Burns (born c. 1952), of Pearland, near Houston, Texas..<ref name=rcljr/>

Lowther outlived by a year and a half his namesake son Robert "Robby" Lowther (1948-2013), who like his father graduated from Bolton High School and LSU, from which he received a basketball scholarship, and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The junior Lowther also played [[baseball]] and[[ golf]]. He held a [[Juris Doctor]]ate  from the  [[Louisiana State University]] Law Center. For a time while he resided in Many in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana, he practiced law and owned ''The Sabine Index'' weekly [[newspaper]]. He established a horse farm, "Beau Salael," in Blanchard north of [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish, where he raised thoroughbreds. He subsequently relocated to Covington in St. Tammany Parish,  where he continued to practice law.<ref name=rcljr>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?pid=166782851#sthash.WGMZD8Au.dpuf|title=Robert Carswell "Robby" Lowther, Jr.|publisher=''Alexandria Town Talk''|date=September 4, 2013|accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref> Lowther and his wife, the former Merriam Hanesworth (born March 1926), have two surviving children, Bradley Hanesworth Lowther (born November 1950) of Baton Rouge, divorced from Cynthia Chaudoir Lowther Cortello,<ref name=brianlowther/> and  Martha Merriam Burns (born c. 1956) and husband, Michael Eugene Burns (born c. 1952), of Pearland, near Houston, Texas..<ref name=rcljr/>

Lowther died at an Alexandria nursing facility at the age of ninety-one after a lengthy illness of [[Alzheimer's disease]]. Memorial services were held on March 27, 2015 at St. Timothy's [[Episcopal]] Church in Alexandria.<ref name=funeral>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/sports/2015/03/25/visitation-at-9-am-service-at-11/70426062/|title=Services Friday for LSU legend Lowther|publisher=The Alexandria Town Talk|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref> Four months after Lowther's death, his family sustained another loss when grandson Brian Joseph Lowther (1978-2015), died in Metairie at the age of thirty-seven.<ref name=brianlowther>{{cite web|url=http://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=brian-joseph-lowther&pid=175359985&fhid=29014|title=Brian Joseph Lowther|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref>

Lowther died at an Alexandria nursing facility at the age of ninety-one after a lengthy illness of [[Alzheimer's disease]]. Memorial services were held on March 27, 2015 at St. Timothy's [[Episcopal]] Church in Alexandria.<ref name=funeral>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/sports/2015/03/25/visitation-at-9-am-service-at-11/70426062/|title=Services Friday for LSU legend Lowther|publisher=The Alexandria Town Talk|accessdate=March 26, 2015}}</ref> Four months after Lowther's death, his family sustained another loss when grandson Brian Joseph Lowther (1978-2015), died in Metairie at the age of thirty-seven.<ref name=brianlowther>{{cite web|url=http://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=brian-joseph-lowther&pid=175359985&fhid=29014|title=Brian Joseph Lowther|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=July 24, 2015}}</ref>