LOWELL K. ARGERSINGER (aged 80 years, one month and 2 days) passed away peacefully in the City of St. Francis with his adopted son, Peter Argersinger Fries, at his side at 1:06 a.m. on June 23, 2004. In the presence of close friends, he was cremated at 7:00 p.m. on June 25, 2004 through the good offices of the Neptune Society of Northern California.
Born on May 20, 1924 in Fargo, North Dakota and raised in Dassel and Minneapolis, Minnesota where he graduated from Dassel High School and the University of Minnesota, Lowell was an accomplished pianist and singer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of American musical theatre.
Lowell moved to San Francisco in 1942 where he resided for the rest of his life. He served in the U.S. Army as Secretary to the Port Mortician at Fort Mason through the end of WW II. He toured and skated for two years with the original Ice Follies, taught English literature at Galileo High School, served as Payroll/Personnel Officer for both the American Can Company and the Little Man-Cala Food Stores, and worked for over 20 years for the City's Department of Social Services as an administrator in its Adoptions and Federal AFDC Programs. Shortly after commencing his 16 years of retirement, Lowell was called back by The City to work for the San Francisco Performing Arts Center Foundation as a very in-demand Events Manager at both the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans War Memorial Building.
During his 62 years in The City, Lowell was an active, much respected and revered member of San Francisco's LGBT community.
Amongst the last of an old school of distinguished, proud, courteous, kind, generous, compassionate, always impeccably dressed, irrepressibly gregarious, sagacious and very entertainingly funny gentlemen, Lowell will be sorely missed by many whose lives he touched and enriched during his sojourn amongst us — including his legally adopted son, Peter Argersinger Fries, his cousins, Karin Broton of Elmhurst, Illinois, Dotty Thielen of Sacramento, and Rob Moe of Minneapolis, aunt Dorothy Moe of Sacramento, and nieces Cheryl and Kathy Merrifield of Los Angeles, and his many good friends in both San Francisco and New York City.
A festive and thoughtful Celebration of Lowell's Life took place at the Green Room of the San Francisco Performing Arts Center on Thursday, August 26, 2004 — during which San Francisco Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom spoke at length of the humorous and endearing qualities Lowell lent to his many years of service to The City . . . and during which celebration cabaret singers Wesla Whitfield, Denise Perrier and Meg McKay provided entertainment.
Lowell's ashes were laid to rest in the San Francisco Columbarium on Saturday, July 9, 2005.
". . . and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun. . . ."
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene III
Born on May 20, 1924 in Fargo, North Dakota and raised in Dassel and Minneapolis, Minnesota where he graduated from Dassel High School and the University of Minnesota, Lowell was an accomplished pianist and singer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of American musical theatre.
Lowell moved to San Francisco in 1942 where he resided for the rest of his life. He served in the U.S. Army as Secretary to the Port Mortician at Fort Mason through the end of WW II. He toured and skated for two years with the original Ice Follies, taught English literature at Galileo High School, served as Payroll/Personnel Officer for both the American Can Company and the Little Man-Cala Food Stores, and worked for over 20 years for the City's Department of Social Services as an administrator in its Adoptions and Federal AFDC Programs. Shortly after commencing his 16 years of retirement, Lowell was called back by The City to work for the San Francisco Performing Arts Center Foundation as a very in-demand Events Manager at both the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans War Memorial Building.
During his 62 years in The City, Lowell was an active, much respected and revered member of San Francisco's LGBT community.
Amongst the last of an old school of distinguished, proud, courteous, kind, generous, compassionate, always impeccably dressed, irrepressibly gregarious, sagacious and very entertainingly funny gentlemen, Lowell will be sorely missed by many whose lives he touched and enriched during his sojourn amongst us — including his legally adopted son, Peter Argersinger Fries, his cousins, Karin Broton of Elmhurst, Illinois, Dotty Thielen of Sacramento, and Rob Moe of Minneapolis, aunt Dorothy Moe of Sacramento, and nieces Cheryl and Kathy Merrifield of Los Angeles, and his many good friends in both San Francisco and New York City.
A festive and thoughtful Celebration of Lowell's Life took place at the Green Room of the San Francisco Performing Arts Center on Thursday, August 26, 2004 — during which San Francisco Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom spoke at length of the humorous and endearing qualities Lowell lent to his many years of service to The City . . . and during which celebration cabaret singers Wesla Whitfield, Denise Perrier and Meg McKay provided entertainment.
Lowell's ashes were laid to rest in the San Francisco Columbarium on Saturday, July 9, 2005.
". . . and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun. . . ."
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene III
LOWELL K. ARGERSINGER (aged 80 years, one month and 2 days) passed away peacefully in the City of St. Francis with his adopted son, Peter Argersinger Fries, at his side at 1:06 a.m. on June 23, 2004. In the presence of close friends, he was cremated at 7:00 p.m. on June 25, 2004 through the good offices of the Neptune Society of Northern California.
Born on May 20, 1924 in Fargo, North Dakota and raised in Dassel and Minneapolis, Minnesota where he graduated from Dassel High School and the University of Minnesota, Lowell was an accomplished pianist and singer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of American musical theatre.
Lowell moved to San Francisco in 1942 where he resided for the rest of his life. He served in the U.S. Army as Secretary to the Port Mortician at Fort Mason through the end of WW II. He toured and skated for two years with the original Ice Follies, taught English literature at Galileo High School, served as Payroll/Personnel Officer for both the American Can Company and the Little Man-Cala Food Stores, and worked for over 20 years for the City's Department of Social Services as an administrator in its Adoptions and Federal AFDC Programs. Shortly after commencing his 16 years of retirement, Lowell was called back by The City to work for the San Francisco Performing Arts Center Foundation as a very in-demand Events Manager at both the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans War Memorial Building.
During his 62 years in The City, Lowell was an active, much respected and revered member of San Francisco's LGBT community.
Amongst the last of an old school of distinguished, proud, courteous, kind, generous, compassionate, always impeccably dressed, irrepressibly gregarious, sagacious and very entertainingly funny gentlemen, Lowell will be sorely missed by many whose lives he touched and enriched during his sojourn amongst us — including his legally adopted son, Peter Argersinger Fries, his cousins, Karin Broton of Elmhurst, Illinois, Dotty Thielen of Sacramento, and Rob Moe of Minneapolis, aunt Dorothy Moe of Sacramento, and nieces Cheryl and Kathy Merrifield of Los Angeles, and his many good friends in both San Francisco and New York City.
A festive and thoughtful Celebration of Lowell's Life took place at the Green Room of the San Francisco Performing Arts Center on Thursday, August 26, 2004 — during which San Francisco Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom spoke at length of the humorous and endearing qualities Lowell lent to his many years of service to The City . . . and during which celebration cabaret singers Wesla Whitfield, Denise Perrier and Meg McKay provided entertainment.
Lowell's ashes were laid to rest in the San Francisco Columbarium on Saturday, July 9, 2005.
". . . and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun. . . ."
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene III
Born on May 20, 1924 in Fargo, North Dakota and raised in Dassel and Minneapolis, Minnesota where he graduated from Dassel High School and the University of Minnesota, Lowell was an accomplished pianist and singer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of American musical theatre.
Lowell moved to San Francisco in 1942 where he resided for the rest of his life. He served in the U.S. Army as Secretary to the Port Mortician at Fort Mason through the end of WW II. He toured and skated for two years with the original Ice Follies, taught English literature at Galileo High School, served as Payroll/Personnel Officer for both the American Can Company and the Little Man-Cala Food Stores, and worked for over 20 years for the City's Department of Social Services as an administrator in its Adoptions and Federal AFDC Programs. Shortly after commencing his 16 years of retirement, Lowell was called back by The City to work for the San Francisco Performing Arts Center Foundation as a very in-demand Events Manager at both the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans War Memorial Building.
During his 62 years in The City, Lowell was an active, much respected and revered member of San Francisco's LGBT community.
Amongst the last of an old school of distinguished, proud, courteous, kind, generous, compassionate, always impeccably dressed, irrepressibly gregarious, sagacious and very entertainingly funny gentlemen, Lowell will be sorely missed by many whose lives he touched and enriched during his sojourn amongst us — including his legally adopted son, Peter Argersinger Fries, his cousins, Karin Broton of Elmhurst, Illinois, Dotty Thielen of Sacramento, and Rob Moe of Minneapolis, aunt Dorothy Moe of Sacramento, and nieces Cheryl and Kathy Merrifield of Los Angeles, and his many good friends in both San Francisco and New York City.
A festive and thoughtful Celebration of Lowell's Life took place at the Green Room of the San Francisco Performing Arts Center on Thursday, August 26, 2004 — during which San Francisco Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom spoke at length of the humorous and endearing qualities Lowell lent to his many years of service to The City . . . and during which celebration cabaret singers Wesla Whitfield, Denise Perrier and Meg McKay provided entertainment.
Lowell's ashes were laid to rest in the San Francisco Columbarium on Saturday, July 9, 2005.
". . . and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun. . . ."
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene III
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