Cynthia Marie Lowry

Cynthia Marie (Senften) Lowry, 49, of Perry Township, loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister, and a friend to hundreds of developmentally disabled Stark Countians, died suddenly Sunday. She would have turned 50 on June 20. For 25 years, Cindy worked for the Stark County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. She started as a volunteer for MRDD upon her 1975 graduation from Central Catholic High School, where she had helped to start a program for mentally retarded young people. Also, while in high school, she volunteered at Apple Creek Developmental Center in Wayne County, a facility for developmentally disabled citizens. After hiring on fulltime to MRDD, she became a behavioral specialist, working with clients with severe behavioral disabilities and mental health disorders. She often would bring clients of MRDD home for holidays with her family. She married David Lowry of Clinton on Dec. 10, 1986. She is mother to Shannon Dazey, 29, and Stacy Klintworth, 26. She was maga (grandma) to Stacy's children Mackenzie and Skylar, and to sister Chris' daughter, Abby. Cindy loved decorating cakes for birthdays and special occasions, antique-collecting, holiday gatherings, and riding motorcycles with Dave. Her house was always full of food, and nobody ever left hungry. She helped Dave collect the hundreds of clocks that he refurbished and that occupy every shelf and nook of their home. She was preceded in death by Dick and Rita Senften, who raised her on nearby Tioga Street NW with brothers Rick, Bob and Ron and sister Chris. To her dad, she was always Wicket. Her neighborhood friends were Elena D'Orazio, Peggy Beck, Sue Beighley, Sue and Patty Ford and Nancy Carlton. Among her most cherished times were trips with her family to Lake Leelanau, just outside of Traverse City, Mich. She loved her church, St. Joan of Arc, where she and her siblings attended grade school. Sister Lois was among her good friends there and she served the church as a Eucharistic minister at Mass. She is survived by husband Dave, daughters Shannon and Stacy, grandchildren Mackenzie and Skylar; brothers Rick (wife Schultze), Bob (wife Karen), Ron (wife Sharon) and sister Chris Slicker (husband Eric), nieces and nephews. She also is survived by parents-in-law Art and Marion Lowry of Clinton. Calling hours will be 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 9 to 9:30 a.m. Friday at Paquelet funeral home at 1100 Wales Rd. NE. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church at Tuscarawas Street and Bordner Avenue SW, Perry Township. The Rev. John Weigand of St. James Catholic Church, Lakewood, Cindy's godfather, will say the Mass. Bryan Stuck, a friend from MRDD, will sing. In lieu of flowers, please donate to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Box 50, Memphis, Tenn. 38101-9929.