Appeared in the Duluth News Tribune - Wednesday, March 24, 1948

Mrs. Mary A. Lozway, 88, Duluth's oldest Gold Star mother of World war 1, died yesterday in her residence, 12 North Twenty-sixth avenue west.

Her son, Earl Lozway, died while in service with America's armed forces in 1918, and her grandson, Gerald Stanford, died in service during World war II.

Mrs. Lozway was a native of Nebraska City, Nebr., and had resided in Duluth for 38 years. She was a member of David Wisted American Legion post auxillary and a former chaplain of that body.

She took an active part in the veterans service work in Duluth. Mrs. Lozway was a life member of the J.B. Culver Women's Relief corps, auxilliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a member of St. Clement's Catholic parish.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Nellie Bergstrom, Mrs. Hjalmer Olson and Mrs. Raymond Stanford, Duluth, and Mrs. James Larkins, Tacoma, Wash., a son, Frank Lozway, Duluth; a sister, Mrs. Nellie Gilmore, Downers Grove, Ill.; 27 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

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