Mary Call Low Dies of Leukemia, Dies at Afton
Mary Call Low, wife of Osborne Low, Jr., died Friday, Oct 14, 1966 of leukemia at Lynwood, Calif. at the age of 75 years.
She was born and raised in Afton, Wyo., and has lived the past 20 years in South Gate and Huntington Park, Calif.
Funeral services were conducted Monday Oct 17 at the Walnut Park LDS Chapel in South Gate, Calif. Graveside services were conducted prior to burial in the family plot at the Afton Cemetery under the direction of the Afton Second Ward Bishopric Thursday afternoon Oct 20.
Mary Call Low was born Oct 20, 1891, the second daughter and fourth child of Anson Vasco and Lucy Englesbee King Call. She began her education in the Afton public schools. In 1904 her mother passed away, and Mary assumed the responsibility of raising her five younger brothers. As she matured under these responsibilities, Mary grew as well in church activity,
first as teacher in the primary and Sunday School, then as counselor in the primary presidency and as director of the tile Co. of Afton, serving as a millinery buyer. She continued in this employment until Osborne Low, Jr. had completed his mission for the LDS Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were married on June 26, 1918 in the Salt Lake Temple.
Following her husband's release from the Army after the armistice in 1918, Mary started her first home as a housewife on a little ranch up Crow Creek in Stat Valley. The growing family lived there for three years, and their first son, Bruce was born there in October 1919.
Mary returned with her husband and son to Afton in 1922, when Osborne began work in the Star Valley State Bank. They purchased a home in Afton. In 1926 Osborne was chosen by the county commissioners of Lincoln County to serve as county treasurer, a post vacated by a.E. Wilde. The family, now included two more sons, Ward and James, and moved to Kemmerer, on July 4, 1926.
During their five years in Kemmerer, Mary was active in church work, and a fourth son Richard, was born in October 1927. Their first son Bruce passed away in February 1928.
In March Mary moved again with her family, this time to Cheyenne, Wyo. where Osborne was appointed deputy bank examiner. Mary's sons all completed their school work, and went to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
Following a brief sojourn in Torrington, Wyo., Mary moved with her husband to South Gate Calif., in the region where her husband became one of the first officers of the Sav-On Drug Company, Inc. With her family raised she found renewed capacity for work in the relief society as theology teacher in the South Gate War. When the Los Angeles Temple opened in 1956, she became with her husband active in temple work, serving as a special worker in the years following 1960. expert seamstress all her life.
Despite physical limitations, she found opportunity for world-wide travel her husband. She and her husband visited the Hawaiian Islands, and in 1960 took a 2 month BYU tour to western Europe. In 1961 they visited Alaska and later took a tour of New england visiting places of LDS church interest, Canada and the Seattle World's Fair. In 1963 they toured the Orient, including Tahti, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia Indonesia Singapore, Thailand, Japan and the Hawaiian Islands. During their travels the Lows were able to visit all 13 of the present LDS Temples.
Survivors besides her husband in her immediate family of brothers and sisters, include; Dr. George A. Call, Garden Grove, Calif.; and Mrs Stella Call Kennington of Afton. Surviving sons include Dr. Ward C. Low of Nerwton, Mass.; Dr. James C. Low of Fullerton Calif.; and Richard C. Low of South Gate, Calif.

Mary Vashti CALL is the daughter of Anson Vasco CALL and Lucy Englesbee KING
Mary Vashti CALL married Osborne LOW 26 Jun 1918 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah