East Bay Times32%
Stan V. Lowe Obituary 17%
By East Bay Times23%
8/2/2026, 12:05:00 AM
Topics: Biography
Keywords: Stan V Lowe, Obituaries
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At the age of 96, Stan V.
Lowe left us.
He passed away peacefully and on his own terms on July 23rd, in his beloved home of fifty years, surrounded by love and admiration from family and friends for his life well-lived.
Born Sanford Vernon Lowenstein on April 12, 1930 to loving parents, Jacob and Mollie Lowenstein, Stan was a proud native Oaklander.
After the untimely death of his father at age 42, Mollie sold their Oakland pharmacy and their home on Vernon Street and moved with young Stan and her two sisters to Los Angeles to take jobs in an airplane factory preparing for the war effort shortly before the start of WWII.
In order to avoid the taunts and bullying of Stan's school mates, Mollie legally changed their surname to Lowe.
In 1944, they returned to Oakland where Stan enrolled at Oakland High School and graduated in the class of 1948.
Stan attended Golden Gate College in San Francisco while working at the Richmond and Marin shipyards until his graduation with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1951.
After serving two years in the Army as an auditor at various military installations in the Mid-West, Stan happily returned to Oakland to earn his CPA license and start his decades long career as a certified public accountant.
He and his friend and associate, Tom Tripodes, together formed their partnership in Tripodes and Lowe, Certified Public Accountants in San Francisco.
A few years later they joined Tom's friends in the Greek community to found Olympic Savings and Loan with branches throughout the Bay Area.
The business was later sold to Home Savings and Loan.
Stan was a forty-year member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
He also held memberships in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Commonwealth Club.
While visiting a client, Stan met Barbara Huebel, the bookkeeper who captured his heart.
The couple spent the next 48 years together, first in Montclair, then in Moraga.
They had decided to raise and show Corgis as a hobby, and the home in Moraga was on a large property perfect for the dogs to romp together and enjoy the mild climate.
Stan and Barbara later also enjoyed entertaining family and friends in their vacation home in Incline Village, fishing in the Sierra Mountain lakes, wagering in local and Las Vegas casinos, showing their championship Corgis at dog shows in the U.S. and Canada, and traveling the world.
Sadly, Barbara passed away in 2006, leaving Stan a bachelor again, in the company of his beloved dogs.
Stan kept fit by jogging the trails of Lamorinda and working out with his friend and personal trainer, Katie Ross.
After the death of his last Corgi in 2009, Katie introduced her friend's mother, Carolyn Tamony, the widowed mother of ten adult children.
As an only child with no children himself, Stan was somewhat intimidated by Carolyn's large family.
But attraction won out and they found each other to be loving companions over the next 16 years, the happiest of his life as Stan often proclaimed.
He introduced Carolyn to the pleasure of a winning hand at the casinos and choosing the winner at the horse races.
She updated the interior of his home and transformed his large backyard into a lovely garden, where they sat in the warm, shaded patio, relaxed, and listened to Frank Sinatra, the Mills Brothers, and the Big Band melodies.
Stan loved watching the Forty-Niners, the SF Giants, Golden State Warriors, Stanford women's basketball, and, lately, the Valkyries.
When there was no sports to entertain him, he enjoyed the old movies of the 30's, 40's and 50's, remembering the names of not only the stars but the myriad of character actors as well.
Grieving Stan's loss are his cousins, Randy Strom and his partner Lorrie Yates, Janet Rosenfeld and her family, Mardee Strom, Gay Strom Schrag, and Judy Strom Norrshen and husband Larry.
Also grieving are Barbara's son Bob Huebel, his wife Barbara and son Ryan, as well as dear friends Jeff Elfont, Katie Ross, and Maria and Bruce Peuse, and all of Carolyn's children and grandchildren, and most especially Carolyn, who will miss his twinkling blue eyes, his warm smile and hearty laughter, his singing the old standards of his youth, and his silly Oakland High jokes.
The family thanks Sinai Memorial Chapel in Lafayette for the funeral arrangements.
Stan was interred on July 29 next to Barbara in a private ceremony at Home of Eternity Cemetery in Oakland.
Memorials to Stan may be made to the SPCA or any group that saves and rehomes lost or injured animals.
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