Obituary: Hudson Benjamin Lowe

Hudson Lowe: July 14, 1997 – July 26, 2017

Hudson graduated Ocoee High School in 2015 and had just completed his sophomore year as an undergraduate student at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. For his short time on this Earth, he had become more of a man and the person he dreamed of becoming than most people become in 80 years.

Hudson was a student government officer in high school, as well as a part of the drum line, but his prize was his club, the Ocoee Green Initiative, of which he was president and founder. The initiative worked on small, but meaningful, projects that reduced Ocoee’s environmental footprint all over campus. Because of the initiative, Ocoee High School was recognized in 2015 under the Green School Recognition Program, an honorable and remarkable feat due solely to Hudson’s unwavering drive to get everything done in the moment.

It didn’t end there, and never did with Hudson. Opportunity was rarely few and far between for him. He was a part of an organization called the Green Program and traveled to Iceland to work on a student sustainability project. When he got to college, he once again carved his way into saving the world.

Aside from joining the Delta Tau Delta fraternity on campus, he joined Mission Green at Florida Atlantic and devoted his time to climate reality awareness and projects, educating elementary students in the area and working on energy efficiency on campus, to name a few accomplishments.

In 2016, he traveled to Vietnam and Hong Kong for a global leadership symposium, and later that year became a student intern for the Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management.

Though his success was self-forged and self-fulfilled, his notably curious and kind spirit was fostered by the love, creativity and devotion of his surviving family members: father, Randy Lowe; mother, Chris Lowe; two sisters, Dakota and Delaney Lowe.

At the end of the day, through leadership, or the environment, or his friends and family, Hudson was always about other people, and other people became about Hudson. The loss of this young man has left a deep and lasting gap in the heart of this community, one that will, hopefully, grow into what Hudson dreamed so much to finish work on: saving the world.

There has been a gofundme link set up, gofundme.com/fall-forward-for-hudson-lowe, if anybody would like to donate toward Hudson’s passions: energy conservation, climate change prevention and education.

A celebration of life will be held at First Baptist Church in Windermere, Florida from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3. The family requests donations to the gofundme link above in lieu of flowers.

Work hard and Fall Forward for Hudson Benjamin Lowe.