She was the first director of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas library's special collections.

[2] Lowe moved with her family to California as a child and graduated from El Monte High School in 1934.

[3] She married David Walker "Deke" Lowe in Nevada in 1935 and the couple went on to own and operate the Goodsprings Hotel.

[4][5] Lowe founded the Southern Nevada Historical Society in 1959 with Maryellen Vallier Sadovich.

[5] She also authored two long-running columns - Echoes from the Archives" and "Southwestern Bookshelf" - for the Las Vegas Review Journal.