Donald’s Older Brothers – Lowel and Raymond.

Lowel Floyd Morrow.

Many may not realize that Donald, Elaine and Ardith had two older brothers who died in infancy.  I knew their names, Lowel (one L) and Raymond, and that they had died in infancy, but that was about it.  I had long assumed that they were buried around Blue Earth, as Donald's parents, (Floyd) Glen and Sophia had lived in that area when young.  Well, as it turns out I was half right, in that Lowel, was not, but Raymond is.  More on Raymond next week.

As soon as Glen and Sophia were married on February 26, 1917, they moved up to northwestern Minnesota, to Manston township, in Wilkin county, near Rothsay.

A little over a year after their marriage, Lowel was born, presumably at their home in Manton Township, not far from Rothsay on April 29, 1918.  Five days after he was born, Lowel died on May 4^th of jaundice at the hospital in Barnesville.  The day of his death his funeral took place at St. James United Church of Christ at Barnesville, and he was buried at Rosemound Cemetery in Barnesville.  

Lowel would have been approximately 3 years older than Elaine, 7 years older than Ardith, and a little less than 9 years older than Donald, had he lived.