Nita M Lowey

Nita M. Lowey, who represented a congressional district based in Westchester County for 32 years, ardently supporting liberal causes and playing a key role in shaping legislation to advance them, died on Saturday March 15 2025 at her home in Harrison, N.Y. She was 87. A Representative from New York; born Nita Sue Melnikoff in New York, N.Y., July 5, 1937; graduated from Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, N.Y., 1955; B.S., Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., 1959; assistant, New York secretary of state for economic development and neighborhood preservation, and deputy director, New York state division of economic opportunity, 1975-1985; New York assistant secretary of state, 1985-1987; in 1988 elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred First and to the twelve succeeding Congresses. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science and, in 1959, Mount Holyoke College, Ms. Lowey worked in advertising for two years before marrying Stephen Lowey, a lawyer, with whom she raised two daughters and a son in Queens and then in Harrison. Besides her husband of 64 years, she is survived by their children Dana Lowey Luttway, Jackie Lowey and Douglas Lowey, and eight grandchildren.