68, of Saratoga, Texas died on Friday April 3, 2015 at Baptist Hospital of Southeast Texas-Beaumont. A service of remembrance will be held on Monday April, 6, 2015, at 2:00P.M. at West End Baptist Church, 13189 Cotton Road Saratoga, Texas with Reverend Bill Fabriguze and Reverend Nathan Hendrix officiating. Interment will follow at Felps cemetery in Thicket, Texas. The family will be receiving friends also on Monday April 6, 2015 from 11:00A.M. until time of service at the church. Richard was born March 24, 1947 in Buna, Texas to Lonnie Lee Lowe and Ida Lee Boyd. He had lived in Saratoga, Texas most of his life and worked in the oilfield as a Roughneck, and was a member of the Grayburg Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, George Lowe and Lonnie Lowe and one sister, Delores Jackson. Survivors are his wife of forty-eight years Elaine Lowe of Saratoga, Texas, son, Walter Lowe and wife Dawn of Thicket, Texas. Daughter, Robin Johnson and husband Jeff of Water Town, Tennessee, brother, Lewis Wayne Lowe of Oak Grove, Louisiana. Sisters, Belinda Parsons of Saratoga, Texas, Sara Lee Boyd of Jasper, Texas. Grandchildren are Justin Johnson and wife Kelsi, Caleb Johnson, Lucas Lowe, and Janet Lowe, and one great- grandchild, McKenna Grace Lowe and Brantlee Shuster.Serving as pallbearers are Caleb Johnson, Justin Johnson, Lucas Lowe, Matthew Wilson, Josh Bowman, and Andy Jackson.