Charles F. Lowe

(1911-1999) born at Steele City, Jefferson County, lived there and briefly at Crete. Television writer and producer, business executive, produced "George Burns and Gracie Allen" on television from 1950 to 1958 where he pioneered incorporation of commercials by show performers for Carnation Milk Company, and worked with Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan advertising agency in New York; he became husband and personal manager to Carol Channing in 1956, then guided her career, first with the 1959 "Show Business", which became a broadway musical hit "Show Girl" in 1961, and was responsible for her role in the noted "Hello Dolly" in 1964; over four decades, he managed and often co-produced her 80 stage, film, television, and major tour appearances when Channing earned Tony Awards in 1964, 1968, and 1995; she was honored with placement of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and on the Broadway Walk of Stars in 2002. Consult Omaha Sunday World Herald Magazine, May 15, 1960, p. 12 and Current Biography (1964) 76-78 and Time, July 15, 1966, pp. 60-61 and Parade Magazine, April 21, 1985, pp. 4-6 and Beatrice /NE/ Daily Sun, October 15, 1996, p. A-4 and obituaries in New York Times, September 5, 1999, Sec. 1, p. 35 and Los Angeles Times, September 5, 1999, p. B-6 and Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Vol 31 (Gale, 2000) 88-90 (for Channing career credits) and Carol Channing, Just Lucky I Guess, A Memoir of Sorts (Simon & Schuster, 2002).

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