Rapid City | Helen Marie Sherman Skinner Lowe lost her fight with cancer Feb 13, 2017. She was 68.

Helen was born to Clarence and Ceona Sherman and raised in Wheelock, ND she was third youngest of 12 brothers and sisters.

She lived in many places but called the Black Hills home where she enrolled in Western Dakota Technical Institute's Computer Electronics program in Rapid City, SD. She worked full time as a waitress at The Oaks Restaurant at the Howard Johnson Hotel, while going to school full time. Most will remember her from working at the Commissary on Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota and the G.E. Call Center.

Helen loved her friends and family, a good cup of coffee, and her grandchildren. She enjoyed crocheting and etching glass. She was an avid reader, loved to travel and enjoyed visiting family.

Helen was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Jennifer Skinner; a son, David Skinner; husband, Melvin Lowe; brothers, Clarence Sherman, James Sherman and Peter Sherman and her parents. She is survived by daughters, Amy (Quentin) Taormina, Rapid City, South Dakota, Lea Lowe, Great Falls, Montana; step children, Lisa (Randy) Thompson, Sharon, Kansas, Bryon Lowe, Longview, Washington and Marty Lowe, Dallas, Texas; brothers, Charles Sherman, Columbia, Maryland, Raymond Sherman, Wilcox, Arizona, and sisters, Dorothy Hegstad, La Mirage, Arizona, Margaret Page, Denver Colorado and June Leas, Hibbing, Minnesota.

Cremation has taken place and she will be interred with her husband, Melvin at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, SD. There will be a celebration of her life in the summer of 2017 with Friends and Family.