Steve Pearce: “I rise today to salute Lowell Stout, a good friend who recently passed away in Hobbs, New Mexico. Lowell was an attorney…”

“I rise today to salute Lowell Stout, a good friend who recently passed away in Hobbs, New Mexico. Lowell was an attorney there. He moved to the area from Oklahoma after the Dust Bowl days in the 1930s. He always called himself a proud son of a sharecropper from Blaine Bottom, Oklahoma. Lowell worked his way through school as a roughneck on drilling rigs. He also worked as an oil field roustabout. During the Korean War, he served in the Army. After his time in the service, he returned to Hobbs to practice law defending a variety of civil litigation matters. Later he began to specialize, representing the small guy in personal injury, plaintiff-related matters. Lowell became a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1981. He was selected to be included among the ``Best Lawyers in America.'' He was an early inductee into the Joe Roehl Circle of Honor which honors the finest trial lawyers in New Mexico. I never asked Lowell if he was a Democrat or Republican. I suspect he was a Democrat. We never talked much about politics because we shared a common belief that the family was paramount. Lowell was the parent of Mark and Georgiann. Georgiann and I went to school together and graduated. She went on to San Francisco and lives there today. Son Mark stays in Hobbs. He and his wife Cindy have raised their family there. The abiding memory of Mr. Stout is that he was always with his wife Liliane. They raised their family in Hobbs. He was a dedicated family man.…”