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Janet Lowry, Columbine football matriarch and Jeffco force, dies from cancer at 54: “She always left people so much better than she found them.”

Janet, the wife of longtime Columbine football coach Andy Lowry, was a teacher at Chatfield

Janet Lowry is pushed by her son, Thomas Lowry, and surrounded by her daughter Katlyn Lowry, husband Andy Lowry and hundreds more supporters during a ceremony for her prior to the Columbine vs. Chatfield game played in her honor on Nov. 1 at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood, Colo. (Courtesy of Flip Dalfonso)
Janet Lowry is pushed by her son, Thomas Lowry, and surrounded by her daughter Katlyn Lowry, husband Andy Lowry and hundreds more supporters during a ceremony for her prior to the Columbine vs. Chatfield game played in her honor on Nov. 1 at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood, Colo. (Courtesy of Flip Dalfonso)
Kyle Newman, digital prep sports editor for The Denver Post.
By | knewman@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Finally, on July 15 this year — her birthday — doctors told Janet she had two months to live.
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