Jeffery L. Lowe was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, October 12,1907. The family relocated to Washington, DC and Lowe graduated from Dunbar High School. Lowe attended Frelinghuysen University in the District, graduating with a degree in Business and Funeral Directing in 1928. After working for the Frazier Funeral Home for a decade, he established the first Lowe’s Funeral Home in 1936. He operated the business until 1946 when he returned to the Frazier Funeral Home, rising to the position of Vice President and General Manager. During this time, Lowe was selected to the Board of the National Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association, and served for five years on the Board of Examiners of the District of Columbia. Lowe was the second African American to serve on any funeral examination board in the United States. Lowe left Frazier’s for a second time in 1959 and once again established the Lowe’s Funeral Home (1425 Maryland Avenue, NE) in 1960. In 1968, the funeral home merged with the R. N. Horton Funeral Home on U Street, NW, and Lowe retired in the late 1970s. Lowe married Evelyn Alexander and had three children. He was a deacon at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church from 1946, a campaign worker for the National Urban League and served as President of the LeDroit Park Civic Association. Lowe died in 1987.