Remembering Whitney Lowe, age 26

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 Whitney Yoder Lowe, you'll be missed...

 WHITNEY LOWE
WOOSTER -- It is with grieving hearts that the family of Whitney Yoder Lowe, 26, of Wooster must advise the community and its many helpful, encouraging friends of the passing of our beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece and cousin on June 8, 2012, at Wooster Community Hospital. A celebration of Whitney's life will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, at Zion Lutheran Church, 301 N. Market St., Wooster, with the Rev. Eric Fairhurst officiating. Interment will follow at Wooster Cemetery. McIntire, Bradham & Sleek Funeral Home, 216 E. Larwill St., Wooster, is assisting the family; and friends may call at the funeral home between the hours of 5-9 p.m.. on Monday, June 11. Those who wish may contribute in Whitney's memory to Hospice and Palliative Care of Greater Wayne County, 2525 Back Orrville Rd., Wooster, or the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation, P. O. Box 204, Norwood, N.J., 07648.
Whitney was born in Wooster on October 12, 1985, to Jeffrey Lowe and Sandra and Philip Kline. Whitney was a member of the 2004 class of Wooster High School. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Wooster.
Whitney graduated in May, 2009, from Muskingum University, with a degree in sociology and child and family studies, but her promising career was cut short with the diagnosis of Triple Negative breast cancer in October, 2010.
She is survived by her loving and devoted parents; by her maternal grandparents, R. Richard and Sally Yoder; paternal grandparents, Jeanie Lowe and David and Marceal Lowe; grandmother, Phyllis Kline; her sister and brother, Kelsey Elizabeth Kline and Philip Joseph Kline; aunts and uncles, Randy and Sandra Yoder, Wendy Raus, Jody and Larry Merrix, and David and Karen Cowan; and further survived by several cousins and special friends, Deveri and Rich Moore and Sandie Ullery, and the Tom and Joyce Barker Family. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Robert C. Kline.
"I beg of you, do not forget me when the phenomenon of death visits me. Keep my memory alive. For if you forget me, only then will I have surely died."
The family wishes to express sincere gratitude to those who shared in Whitney's illness, who understood her pain, who prayed with her and gave her strength for each aching step, who consoled us as a family and walked with us, providing food and other aid as we faced this unthinkable loss -- especially our patient and understanding employers, Wooster City Schools, The Prentke Romich Company, and Carlton and Graham Retail Construction Company, the Hospice professionals and Dr. Paul Masci.
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WALKING IN THEIR HONOR, MEMORY AT RELAY FOR LIFE
Walking in their honor, memory
By LINDA HALL Staff Writer Published: June 10, 2012 4:00AM
WOOSTER -- Her family had planned to walk in her honor; instead, they walked in her memory Friday evening at Relay for Life on the Wooster High School track.
Whitney Lowe, 26, lost her courageous battle with triple negative breast cancer -- one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer -- early Friday afternoon, but she embodied the Relay spirit up until the end of her life.
"Even today," Lowe's aunt, Wendy Raus of Wooster, said, stepping off the track shortly after the event began on Friday evening, "I walked in, and I said, 'How are you, honey?' and she said, 'Great,' and she could hardly breathe."
"She didn't want to die," Raus said, and she encouraged everyone around her "to live every day to the fullest."
"She had a strong will," Raus said, and continued to assert, "I'm not going to die."
But her niece said, if she did die, "I'll see you all soon, and I love you."
"One thing we (had) told Whitney," Raus said, is that her struggle was not in vain.
Sandy Kline, Lowe's mother and Raus's sister, will be an advocate for continuing the fight against the disease, Raus said. "(Kline) wants to be an advocate and be a speaker to the medical field, to women, to girls. She will help and save women."
"Whitney wanted the family to come here tonight," Raus said, and by 8:30 p.m. 16 of her relatives had joined the walk.
PRC members, co-workers of Kline, also remembered Whitney.
"She has been so strong, such a fighter, such an inspiration to all of us," said Jan Hughes.
"We're glad she's no longer suffering," Hughes said, and grateful that she and her family "made a lot of good memories as a family that they shared with us."
The family "touched our hearts," Hughes said, adding, Kline "fought for Whitney all the way through. She was a true advocate for Whitney. Everything that could be done was done."
"It's amazing how many people in the community were touched by Whitney," Nancy Crisafulli said.
"Not a year goes by" that the district is "not touched by the sad news" of a diagnosis of cancer or a life lost to it, said Michael Tefs, superintendent of Wooster City Schools, a partner of Relay for Life, at its opening ceremony.
"A 5-year-old kindergarten student, the mother of a freshman, the daughter of a science teacher," Tefs elaborated, the latter referring to Phil Kline, whose daughter, Lowe, "lost a courageous battle with cancer just this afternoon."
Tefs said all those attending and serving at Relay for Life represented "a sign of hope."
"For the next 18-19 hours, the Wooster community will join together in the fight against cancer," said Wooster Mayor Bob Breneman, praising the community for raising $3 million in 16 years. "That's an awesome amount. Wooster always amazes me with the generous enthusiasm and support given to good causes."

Edited by Melissa P. - Jun 10 2012 at 12:59pm

Remembering Whitney Lowe, age 26

Whitney Yoder Lowe, you'll be missed...

WHITNEY LOWE

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WALKING IN THEIR HONOR, MEMORY AT RELAY FOR LIFE

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