Peter Hufford Lowry

Peter Hufford Lowry, retired physician, of Camden, Maine and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, died 17 April 2024 at Magnolia Springs, Loveland, Ohio. He was 81. He was born 19 December 1942, in New York, to Barbara Schueler Lowry and Donald Irwin Lowry. As a child he moved frequently, as his father was transferred to various Procter and Gamble offices.

During his early years he lived in Hingham, MA, Chicago, IL, Cincinnati, OH and Cohasset, MA., before the family settled permanently in Cincinnati as he started high school. He attended Cincinnati Country Day School, class of 1960, and went on to Harvard College graduating in 1964. Following graduation, he spent four years in active duty with the Marine Corps (one year in Vietnam), leaving active service as a Captain.

He graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1972 and worked as a lawyer in private practice in Washington DC. He also served in the government and was the General Counsel of the White House Council on Wage and Price Stability under both the late Ford and early Carter administration.

Never enamored of legal practice, he took the unusual step of entering medical school at the age of 38, and once stated that one of his few major regrets was that he did not take the path to medicine much earlier in life.

Following graduation from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1985, he re-entered military service as an Army physician. He trained at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, following which he commanded a clinic in South Korea and then was Chief of Primary Care at the Army hospital at Fort Eustis, Virginia, including during the early months of the first Gulf war.

He returned to civilian life and Cincinnati in 1990 and was in practice there until 1993 when he took a position in the Occupational Medicine Department at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico), remaining there until 2001. He was recalled to active duty in 1996 for the campaign in Bosnia and served briefly in Europe and then as Command Surgeon for the field command of the Defense Special Weapons Agency.

Following his release from active duty, he moved to the east coast and became an instructor and consultant on various medical aspects of chemical and biological warfare, for several government consulting firms and for the National Center for Biological Research and Training.

His final position was as a staff physician at the US Army hospital at Fort Knox, Kentucky until he retired in 2013.

He remarried in 2014 and retired to Maine where he spent most of his retirement years working on an old family farmhouse and enjoying his children and grandchildren.

Though dementia slowly robbed Peter of his memory over the last several years, his kind, loving personality and humor continued. All who were around until the end have continued to share stories of his wit and positivity which is what we will all miss the most. The family thanks the staff at Magnolia Springs Memory Way in Cincinnati, Ohio for all their love, care and attention.

He is survived by his wife Ruth, of Newport News, Virginia, and four children: Katherine Lowry Van Landschoot, of Fort Myers, Florida; David Lowry, of New York City, New York; Elizabeth Lowry Lewis, of Cincinnati, Ohio; and Liam Caliber, of Cincinnati, Ohio; granddaughters Lillian Van Landschoot, Lucile Lewis and Josephine Lewis; two step children: Mark (Chip) Longenecker III, of Chicago, Illinois and Emily Longenecker Andrews, of Hampton, Virginia; and, a former wife, Tracy McMullen of Estero, Florida.

The family takes comfort knowing that Peter is reunited with his granddaughter Emilia Cate Lewis.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Peter's name to either the Alzheimer's Association or the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.

Memorial services will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Indian Hill Church Saturday September 7, 2024 at 10am and in Rockport, Maine Tuesday July 23, 2024 at Sea View Cemetery.