Longtime Amityville resident, singer and community volunteer Dolores Mary Lowe died Oct. 20, 2009 at her home. She was 89. She spent many summers in Amityville as a guest in the vacation cabins that once lined both sides of the Amityville River. Later she made Amityville her permanent home and met and married her high school sweetheart. “One year she returned to school so tan and with her jet hair in pigtails, that a teacher asked her what Indian tribe she was from,” said her son Edward Jr., a former Newsday columnist who still laughs today over the family story. Mrs. Lowe and her husband, Edward J. Lowe, a former Amityville Police Chief, moved to Hamilton Street in 1946. For many years she worked in Losi’s, a once-popular candy and ice cream store in Amityville. Mrs. Lowe was born Jan. 20, 1920 in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn to Thomas Patrick and Mary (Burns) Dimond and started singing at four years of age with her family in Vaudeville. She sang on the radio station WRRL in Woodside, and was selected to sit on Al Jolson’s lap dressed as a boy while he sang Sonny Boy to her. She later resumed her career under the stage name “Kiki” and appeared in several movies, said her son, who added that his mother was a warm, loving person. Mrs. Lowe was a member of the Good Samaritan Hospital Guild and of the St. Martin of Tours R.C. Church, where she sewed vestments for many years. In addition to her son, Edward, Mrs. Lowe leaves behind her grandchildren: Theresa Christine Marino of Amity Harbor, Colleen Ann Smith of Wales, Massachusetts, James Edward of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and Daniel Phillip of Amityville. Her great grandchildren, Shannon Spollen, Andrew Marino and Jessica Marino also survive her. She was predeceased by her husband Edward, and her son William Frances Lowe. A Prayer Service was conducted at the Powell Funeral Home, Amityville, on Oct. 22, 2009. Monsignor Daniel Hurley officiated at a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Martin of Tours R.C. Church, Amityville, assisted by the Consolation Ministry and members of the family. Interment followed in the Long Island National Cemetery at Pinelawn.