Lowell H. Penny

Mr. Penny died Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames.

He was born Nov. 3, 1921, in Atchison County, Kan., the son of Corbon and Myrtle Peebles Penny. He moved with his family to rural Lawrence in 1932 and graduated from Liberty Memorial High School in 1939. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. in agronomy from Iowa State University.

Mr. Penny served as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, stationed in the South Pacific. He was an agronomist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He worked primarily with corn research and development in collaboration with ISU. He had assignments with Ankeny, Iowa, corn borer research, Iowa State Corn Breeding Project, Northern Grain Rootworm Project and Asgrow Seed Co. He spent two years on assignment with an AID maize project in Kitale, Kenya.

He married Betty Clark. She survives, of the home.

Other survivors include two sons, Norman, Hayward, Calif., and Robert, Painesville, Ohio; a daughter, Marilyn Rader, Story City; a sister, Rebecca Martin, Kansas City, Kan.; a brother, Lawrence Perry, Lawrence, Kan.; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Stevens Memorial Chapel in Ames assisted with funeral arrangements.