Dwight Everard Lowell
Dwight Everard Lowell, II passed away on October 3, 2025 in Santa Barbara, CA. He was 82 years old.
He was the son of the late Adkins Lowell and Eleanor Lewis Lowell. Dwight was born on December 31, 1942 in Bryn Mawr, PA and grew up in Short Hills, NJ.
He graduated from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield MA in 1960 and from Alma College in Alma, MI in 1964 where he earned a BA in Economics.
Dwight married Kimberly Battle Feather in 1971 in Pelham Manor, New York.
They lived in New York, Connecticut, and Chicago before retiring to Santa Barbara.
Dwight spent 25 years on Wall Street in institutional sales. His firms included Drexel Burnham, White Weld, and Kidder, Peabody & Co. He then opened an investment advisory firm based in Greenwich, CT where he worked until he retired in 1999. Dwight and Kimberly moved to Santa Barbara in 2002
An avid tennis player, he played at Deerfield, was captain of his college tennis team, and after retirement played regularly with a local group known as the Montecito Mafia. He was an accomplished Platform (“Paddle”) Tennis player and was ranked third nationally in the mid 1970’s. His tennis and paddle prowess translated into a spot on the US Fronton Team for the 1970 Basque Pelota World Championships in Spain. He tried to be a golfer. He really tried.
His passion was animals. He came by it naturally. His great grandmother, Caroline Earle White, co-founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1867. Two years later she founded its women’s branch which established the first animal shelter in the U.S. In 1883 she founded the American Anti-Vivisection Society, the first of such organizations in America. His parents, Adkins and Eleanor, founded the Hilton Head Humane Association in 1976. In 2007 Dwight and Kimberly established a foundation for homeless dogs. Dwight served on the board of the Humane Society of the United States from 2007 through 2009. He was a supporting member of wildlife and environmental organizations all of his adult life.
He always claimed to like animals more than people. Nevertheless, he was quick-witted and fun to be around. He may have preferred the company of animals, but he was a loyal, generous friend to many and a loving husband.
He is survived by his wife, Kimberly; his sisters-in-law and their husbands Barrie and Harvey Wilgus of Frederick, MD and Pamela and Bob Osborn of Framingham, MA; a niece, Samantha Osborn O’Shea of Ashland, MA; and nephews Wesley Osborn of Framingham, MA, and Jeffrey and Michael Wilgus of Montreal, Canada.
In Dwight’s memory, please support animals in need.
