Celesta
Celesta Adelaid-Lisle Lowe
d. December 9, 2004
Celesta Lowe, a former Review-Journal book reviewer and the first paid employee at the instittion that would eventually become UNLV, died Thursday in Henderson. She was 87.
The longtime Nevadan wrote 10 magazine articles inthe 1940's that became the basis for episodes of "Death Valley Days" on radio and later on the television show that was narraged by Ronald Reagan,said Lowe's son, Dale Lowe.
"She more or less portrayed people from the desert as very positive, heroic characters," Dale Lowe said of his mother's many writings. " She wanted to show these were very resourceful people and how they struggled against whatever obstacles they had. I mean, putting food on the table was difficult, but they were people who could overcome".
Celesta Lowe told stories of colorful Western characters she had known, such as Seldom Seen Slim and Death Valley Scotty, her son said.
In one account, she wrote of how Death Valley Scotty presided over her Las Vegas marriage in 1935, then rushed to his duties as grand marshal of a parade on fremont Street. Scotty was so intoxicated at the time, Lowe once wrote, that two men supervised him the entire route to ensure he did not fall off os his hourse.
Celesta is survived by her four children, David(Barbara) of Sandy Valley, Lisle of Amargossa Valley, Janet of Santa Fe, N.N. and Carlsbad, CA and Dale (Kathy) of Las Vegas. There are nine grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and the week before she died, she became a great-great-grandmother.
The longtime Nevadan wrote 10 magazine articles inthe 1940's that became the basis for episodes of "Death Valley Days" on radio and later on the television show that was narraged by Ronald Reagan,said Lowe's son, Dale Lowe.
"She more or less portrayed people from the desert as very positive, heroic characters," Dale Lowe said of his mother's many writings. " She wanted to show these were very resourceful people and how they struggled against whatever obstacles they had. I mean, putting food on the table was difficult, but they were people who could overcome".
Celesta Lowe told stories of colorful Western characters she had known, such as Seldom Seen Slim and Death Valley Scotty, her son said.
In one account, she wrote of how Death Valley Scotty presided over her Las Vegas marriage in 1935, then rushed to his duties as grand marshal of a parade on fremont Street. Scotty was so intoxicated at the time, Lowe once wrote, that two men supervised him the entire route to ensure he did not fall off os his hourse.
Celesta is survived by her four children, David(Barbara) of Sandy Valley, Lisle of Amargossa Valley, Janet of Santa Fe, N.N. and Carlsbad, CA and Dale (Kathy) of Las Vegas. There are nine grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and the week before she died, she became a great-great-grandmother.
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