Ms. Jimmy Faye Lowe

Mrs. Jimmy Faye Lowe, 78 years old of Gilmer, Texas, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, July 2, 2022, after a multiyear struggle from a stroke. Ms. Jimmy was born in Talladega, Alabama to Willis and Inez Blankenship Hylemon. She married Carl Lowe in March of 1967 and moved to Rock Hill, S. C. where she raised her family, graduated from college, and started a successful childcare facility. After caring for 3 generations of families in Rock Hill, Ms. Jimmy closed her business in 2010 and retired to Gilmer, Texas to live with her son and his family. Always in service to others, Ms. Jimmy acclimated to her new life in Gilmer and became a member of the First Baptist Church of Gilmer, a member of the local chapter of the American Legion and a Pink Lady volunteer where she donated her time to the old Gilmer hospital and the Focus Care Nursing Facility. She loved to sew, cook, can, and read and if she wasn’t at home, she could be found at the hospital or nursing home reading the Bible to others or working on her floral arrangements. Ms. Jimmy is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Carl; her brother, W. J. Hylemon; and a grandson, Timothy Helton. She is survived by her Aunt Claudine Cheatwood of Alabama; her sisters, Minda Champion, Jennie Mizzell, and Shirley Poole all of Alabama; her son, Joey & wife Anita Lowe & children; her daughters, Cindy & husband Kendall Downing of Rock Hill, S. C., Shirley & husband Frank Sciandra & children of Rock Hill, S. C., Patricia & husband Alfonso Ramos & children of Fort Worth, Texas, and Crystal & husband Joel Eldridge & children of Kentucky. Ms. Jimmy was blessed to have fifteen grandchildren and twenty-two great grandchildren. She always said she was a small part of a much larger family that included the Blankenships, the Hylemons, the Connells, the Saffolds, the Germanys, and the many generations of families whose children she cared for 35 years. Services will be held at 10:00 am, Thursday, July 7, 2022, at McWhorter Funeral Home in Gilmer, Texas. Interment to follow at Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Wednesday, July 6, 2022, at McWhorter Funeral Home. The family requests that memorial donations be made on behalf of Ms. Jimmy to your local Make-A-Wish Foundation or to your local children’s hospital. Pallbearers are Kodey Wear, Jamie Witherspoon and Garrett Lowe. Please visit Ms.Jimmy’s on-line registration book at www.mcwhorterfh.com to leave a memory for the family.

Ms. Jimmy Faye Lowe

August 6, 1943 - July 2, 2022