Ready To Serve

Lowery Honored by Appointment to SAEC Board

Like most people, David Lowery never really thought about how electricity gets to his home until he was approached to serve as a member of the South Alabama Electric Cooperative (SAEC) Board of Trustees.

“It kind of came at me out of the blue, to be honest,” Lowery says. “I was certainly honored to get the opportunity. It just was not something I expected, but I was certainly very appreciative and glad to serve and help in any way I could.”

Appointed in August from the cooperative’s District 6, Lowery fills the seat left vacant after the death of longtime board member Douglas Green.

Lowery grew up in Georgiana in Butler County, not far from where he currently lives in the Mt. Zion community in Crenshaw County.

Most people in the area know him for his 14 years as head football coach at Brantley High School, but he also spent 10 years as an educator and coach in Elba, where he met his wife, Kim. He was the head football coach for 2 years and the head baseball coach in Elba before moving to Brantley in 1999.

Lowery spent 26 years as an educator and athletic coach before retiring from full-time work. He worked for another 5 years in a part-time capacity, which gave him the opportunity to coach with his sons, Andrew and Trey, at Straughn High School.

“We had a good time with that,” Lowery says.

Lowery currently works with Woodmen Life as a recruiting sales manager. He enjoys deer hunting and family trips to the beach, as well as being a spectator at ball games coached by his sons at Brantley and Enterprise high schools.

Married 32 years, he and Kim have 1 granddaughter, 2-year-old Eva Blake. They are members of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Lowery says he has a lot to learn about the cooperative’s District 6, as well as the service area overall, so he can better understand how to help the cooperative serve its members.

“Certainly, I’m available to anyone in my district who wants to call and offer suggestions,” he says.