FRIEDA THERESA BARGHINI LOWE
Dec. 2, 1934March 20, 2024 We honor and remember the well lived life of Frieda Theresa Barghini Lowe. Frieda was born on Dec. 2, 1934 in San Jose, CA to loving Italian immigrant parents, Theresa LaGrutta and Giuseppe Barghini. Frieda met Robert Lowe, the love of her life, at only 15 years old. They married in 1952, when Frieda was 17 years old and graduated from San Jose High School. Bob and Frieda shared a wonderful life together and were married for 59 years until Bob passed in 2011. Frieda became a loving and wonderful mother to daughters, Sherry and Pam, at a young age. She raised them with strong bonds to family, home and friends. Frieda warmly welcomed all to her home with open arms and served delicious food and drinks. Her ability to entertain and make gourmet food was legendary. She always generously shared her recipes with all who were interested. Her kind nature and graciousness endeared her to everyone she met. Frieda loved to garden and could grow anything from flowers, to trees, to vegetables. She even expertly sculpted a large shrub into a huge rabbit in her backyard in Paradise, CA.
Frieda worked for Bank of America in Los Gatos, CA for many years before moving to Paradise in 1990 to be closer to her daughters who lived in Paradise. Frieda continued her banking career and worked for Bank of America in Paradise until she retired in 2000.
Frieda was a skilled seamstress and after retirement took up quilting. She excelled at quilting and joined the Paradise Quilting Guild and made many good friends as well as numerous beautiful quilts. In 2000, her daughter, Pam and husband Bill, bought Joy Lyn’s Candies and recruited the hard working Frieda to work at the shop. Frieda worked tirelessly helping out at the shop with candy making and gift wrapping until Bob became ill with Alzheimer’s in 2009. True to Frieda’s devoted and selfless nature, she took care of Bob until he passed in 2011. Several years later, at a bereavement group, Frieda met her good companion and friend, Ken Miller. Ken, heroically saved Frieda and drove her out of the Paradise Camp Fire on Nov. 8, 2018. Sadly, Frieda’s beautiful home in Paradise was lost in the devastating fire along with all her possessions, photos, quilts and heirlooms. Frieda later moved to a lovely home in Chico with her daughter, Sherry, who cared for her until Frieda recently moved to memory care at Amber Grove. Frieda’s family loved her dearly and will never forget all the valuable life lessons she taught them and will carry all those positive lessons to the next generation and the next generation…and so on. Frieda was an extraordinary person and will always be a part of her family’s spirit because of the caring and generous person she was and taught her family to be as well. Frieda is survived by her loving daughters, Sherry Lowe, and Pam Hartley, her devoted son-in-law Bill Hartley, her grandchildren, Glenn, Gina and Scott, as well as great grandchildren, Haley, Will, Juliette, Hazel and Peyton, in addition to numerous devoted nieces and nephews. Interment will be private. Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be sent to Alzheimer’s Association or to Enloe Hospice in Chico, CA.