Lowe, Steven Ray
Marines Private 1st class

Steven Ray Lowe, age 21, from Jacksonville, Illinois, Morgan county.

Parents: Donald G. and Elouise Lowe
Spouse: None
Children: None

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Sunday, May 31, 1970
Death details: Died at an Army hospital in Camp Zama, Japan, where he was treated for severe burns. He suffered the injury in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam when a candle fell into a gas can in Lowe’s bunker.

Source: National Archives, Jacksonville Journal Courier (1970)

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