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Ila Hunter Lowman

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[April 16, 2021]  LOS ANGELES CA - Ila Hunter Lowman, daughter of Elkhart, long-time resident of both Lincoln and Springfield, died peacefully in her sleep on March 8, 2021 in Los Angeles. She was 91 years old.

Service:  Monday, April 5, 2021 at 1 p.m. at the Historic Gillett Farm in Elkhart.  Reception to follow.

Funeral home: Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Lincoln

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Ila Hunter Lowman, daughter of Elkhart, long-time resident of both Lincoln and Springfield, died peacefully in her sleep on March 8, 2021 in Los Angeles. She was 91 years old.

For nearly thirty years she was the owner and operator of Ila’s Beauty Shop, originally in Elkhart, then for many years in Lincoln. She closed the shop as the weekly shampoo-and-sets of one generation gave way to the bi-monthly trims of the next, and that particular era of beauty parlor social clubs came to a close.

Ila loved a road trip, and was proud to have visited nearly every state in the contiguous 48. She never troubled herself with a European bucket list, as there was “too much to see right here.” She was a pioneer in non-conformity, and proudly told fuchsia- or purple-haired millennials that she had pink hair back in the early 60s, and red and green for Christmas! Asked in 2019 if she’d like to revisit that look, now that the colors were vibrant and options endless, she said, “Nah.
Now everyone’s doing it.”

During her long life, she truly never met a stranger. No matter where she was—in line at the post office, on a city subway, sitting in church—she engaged with people and made connections. It is truly impossible to fathom how many lives she touched. She was honest and kind, unfettered and unfiltered, sweet and prickly and fierce and so very funny. Ila was absolutely one of a kind, and she wouldn’t have had it any other way. Certainly all those who knew her loved her all the more for that.

Ila is preceded in death by her parents Edward and Helen Hunter, husband Dale Lowman, several brothers and sisters, and daughter, Bonnie England. She leaves behind sons Robert Broughton and Bruce Lowman, daughter Rebecca Lowman, sister Wilma Hunter, grandchildren Angela Madden, Alec Broughton, and Zac Lowman, great-grandchildren Zane Schultz, Zoe Madden, Zoey and Harper Lowman, great-great-grandchildren Piper and Declan Schultz, many nieces, nephews, and many more great- and great-great- nieces and nephews, all of whom she loved dearly.

A Memorial will be held on Monday, April 5, 2021 at 1 p.m. at the Historic Gillett Farm in Elkhart, with a reception following the service.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, where, in her youth, she received life-changing orthopedic treatment.

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