Lowe Court is named in honor of brothers David Lowe (1915–1942) and Gordon Lowe (1921–1943), both of whom were killed overseas during World War II. Both brothers were graduates of Jamaica High School and were members of the Jamaica Jewish Center.

David B. Lowe (1915–1942) was born in Brooklyn, New York. He and his brother were the sons of police lieutenant Max Lowe. He attended Jamaica High School, where he excelled in sports, and later played varsity baseball at Long Island University. After graduation, David worked as an athletic director for the Queens Park Department and played baseball in the Queens Alliance.

He entered military service as an aviation cadet in December 1941, earning a commission as a bomber navigator assigned to the 400th Bomb Squadron of the 90th Bomb Group in the Pacific. In the early morning of December 18, 1942, Second Lieutenant David Lowe was the navigator aboard a new Consolidated B-24D Liberator, nicknamed "Texas Terror," bound for Iron Range Airbase in Queensland, Australia. Shortly after taking off from Amberley Airfield, the plane encountered severe weather, lost all contact, and was reported missing.

The wreckage of the B-24 was not found until January 7, 1944. It had crashed into the southern side of Mount Straloch on Hinchinbrook Island, killing all 20 airmen onboard. The crew's remains were originally buried in Ipswich Cemetery, later exhumed, and permanently interred on January 7, 1949, at Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Maxwell, Nebraska.

Gordon Lowe (1921–1943) David's younger brother, was a noted athlete in baseball, basketball, and track at Jamaica High School. He was a junior at City College and an aspiring actor when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps on January 17, 1942, as an aviation cadet. Like his brother, he graduated as a navigator.

By May 1943, with no news yet about the fate of the "Texas Terror," Gordon was deployed overseas to serve with a bomb group in North Africa. Just two months later, Gordon was killed in action during a raid over Sicily.

Gordon Lowe was initially buried in El Alia Cemetery, Algiers, Algeria. His remains were later repatriated to East Farmingdale in Suffolk County, New York, on June 3, 1948.