Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 6 Sep 2007

Addie Mae Kirk Loewe died Monday at her home in Rockdale.
Services are pending at First Baptist Church in Bremond.
She was born in Milano on Dec. 4, 1937.

She was reared by Mattie and Asa McGregor, her grandparents.

She married Harold Herman Loewe on July 3, 1954.

Mrs. Loewe was a longtime resident of Calvert and an active member of First Baptist Church of Bremond, serving as the Rebecca Class Sunday School teacher and on numerous committees as well as the Missions Director.

She was past-president of the Calvert Woman’s Club and was especially interested in the public library at Calvert.

She served as treasurer for the Calvert Antique Guild. She was also Robertson County Precinct 1 Republican Party chairman for over 15 years, holding primary elections and helping in general and city elections.

Mrs. Loewe was a layout artist for the Giddings Times & News, Mexia Daily News, and the Fairfield Recorder. She served as editor/owner of the Calvert Tribune.

She ran an antique business in Calvert for 20 plus years.
For 10 years she worked in public schools with students in Hubbard, Harper, and Calvert as a newspaper and yearbook sponsor, carrying a number of students to state UIL academic meets in journalism and having top school newspapers and yearbooks in the state.

Mrs. Loewe’s life was centered around her family and her extended church family. She loved people. She would say that growing up she always felt surrounded by love from her family, church, community, and school.

Mrs. Loewe was preceded in death by her mother, Thelma McGregor Kirk; her grandparents, Mattie and Asa McGregor; brothers and sisters-in-law, Ruby and Wiley Kirk, Jr., and Lisa and Cecil Kirk.

Survivors are a son and daughter-in-law, Lisa and Dusty Loewe of Rockdale; two daughters and sons-in-law, Cindy and Barry Capps of Fairfield, Gaye and Henry Hawkins of Rockdale; four grandsons, Ben Capps, Hal Hawkins, Justin Loewe, and Lance Loewe; four granddaughters, Erin Capps, Kirby Capps Flandry, Diane Hawkins, and Miranda Loewe; a brother and sister-in-law, Nina and Wendell Kirk of Lake Jackson; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Pat and J. D. Kimmel of Houston, Frances and Hulon Bush of Cypress.

In leiu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Bremond, Building or Mission Fund, or Calvert Woman’s Club, Library Restoration Fund.