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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=''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's younger brother, Charles A. "Buster" Lowther (1926-2015), was also a Houston native and graduate of Bolton High School, at which like his brother excelled in basketball and track and field. At LSU, from which he graduated in 1949, Buster Lowther was all-SEC in the pole vault and affiliated like his brother with Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Charles Lowther enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] in World War II and was an [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] officer in the [[Korean War]]. An [[insurance]] agent and member multiple times of the Million Dollar Round Table, Lowther was also an orator, singer, and stage actor, with the ability to voice nearly any accent. He was long involved with the Alexandria Little Theatre. He was the father of five children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=charles-a-lowther-buster&pid=175661158&fhid=6588#sthash.rEfwFC13.dpuf|title=Charles A. "Buster" Lowther|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=August 28, 2015}}</ref>

Lowther's younger brother, Charles A. "Buster" Lowther (1926-2015), was also a Houston native and graduate of Bolton High School, at which like his brother excelled in basketball and track and field. At LSU, from which he graduated in 1949, Buster Lowther was all-SEC in the pole vault and affiliated like his brother with Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Charles Lowther enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] in World War II and was an [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] officer in the [[Korean War]]. An [[insurance]] agent and member multiple times of the Million Dollar Round Table, Lowther was also an orator, singer, and stage actor, with the ability to voice nearly any accent. He was long involved with the Alexandria Little Theatre. He was the father of five children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=charles-a-lowther-buster&pid=175661158&fhid=6588#sthash.rEfwFC13.dpuf|title=Charles A. "Buster" Lowther|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=August 28, 2015}}</ref>