Elden Glen Lott

Elden Glen Lott our beloved father passed away on December 4, 2025 at The Homestead Assisted Living Home. He was 96 years old. Born in Ucon, Idaho on November 9, 1929 he had the experience to see and live through many significant events of the 20 th century and a few of the 21 st century. His parents were David Alonzo Lott (Lon) and Ruby Agnes Anderson.

Dad’s family moved several times while dad was young. They moved from Ucon to Idaho Falls and then eventually, because the boys of his ever growing birth family needed to learn how to work, our Grandpappy and Grandma moved the family to Mud Lake, Idaho where dad helped to work the farm, hired out to other farmers and went to school. When he was sixteen, he ran away from home and ended up in central California. He didn’t talk too much about that experience, except to say he was glad to be back home in Idaho working the farm again. Dad graduated from High school and headed to Sweden to serve a 2 ½ year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leaving behind his high school sweetheart, Elaine Jernberg. At the end of his honorable mission he came home to Mud Lake.

In the fall of 1952, for the third time, Dad asked Mary Louise Konold to marry him. She agreed this time. (Dad said, “The third time was the charm!) Dad and Mom were sealed for time and all eternity in the Idaho Falls Temple on December 10, 1952. Their marriage lasted 65 years. During that time Dad and Mom lived and worked in many different places.

Dad and Mom moved to Salt Lake City, where dad worked for Master Craft Furniture. Thus began a lifelong love of being an upholsterer.

Dad joined the United Sates Air Force the spring after they were married. He served honorably during the Korean Conflict. When he mustered out of the Air Force he decided to try university. It lasted a day when he decided, university wasn’t for him. He took a job in Salt Lake building furniture. Building furniture was something he enjoyed doing until he was almost 95 years old.

Dad and Mom had 3 children. Janet Louise, who was stillborn, David Alonzo (named after his Grandpappy), and Laurie Sue. Dad moved the family to Gallup, New Mexico where he worked as an upholsterer with a side job, in the beginning, as a manager of the local DMV, and later as an inventor of a massive saw that sawed wedges for the local uranium mines. He sold his upholstery business in 1980 and moved to St. George, Utah and set up shop there.

Dad became restless and moved back up to the Utah Valley area of Utah. About this time, it became necessary to help his daughter Laurie finish her education. Dad and Mom babysat her small children while she attended university. At the conclusion of those years, they moved to Rexburg, Idaho where Dad once again set up shop as Custom Interiors. While working in Rexburg Dad and Mom made many live-long friendships. Many of those friendships turned into “second children.” Bob Gulley, Matt Huff, Isai Alvarez, “John Deere” Jared and the Garmon brothers, just to name a few. Dad sold Custom Interiors in 2016 and they moved to Hibbard, Idaho where they lived and worked until Mary passed away in 2018.

Dad married his High School sweetheart, Elaine Jernberg Munns, on January 1, 2019 in Lyman, Idaho. Dad gained five more children Doug (Debbie) Munns, Coleen (Greg) Snell, Susan (Shane) Hansen, Mike (Annette) Munns Janie (Brent) Nielson, and numerous grandchildren. He loved them right from the start. He enjoyed getting to know them, participating in family gatherings and their long talks together. Dad often called Elaine “the love of my life.“

During his life, Dad served in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Sunday School teacher, a Stake Mission President, Home Teacher (ministering Brother), Branch President and as a Temple worker in the Idaho Falls Temple, and later, in the Rexburg Temple.

▪ Dad is preceded in death by: his parents, his wife, his brothers: Delbert (Shirley and Darlene), Milton, Seth (MaryAnn and Velta), DeMar, LaMon (Norma), Arlo, Phil, his sister, Ruby Mitchell (Tommy), his in-laws: Hal Lowder, Linda and Gayle Lott; son-in-law John Lee and grandchildren, Cindy Ray and George DeCato

▪ Dad is survived by: Elaine Jernberg Munns Lott, David Alonzo Lott, II, Laurie Sue Lee-Saxton (Lynn); brothers; Ralph and Ben; Sister, Helen Lowder; in-laws: Judy Lott Lee, LaDawn Lott Clark and Kathi Lott and 11 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 3rd, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Archer First Ward, 1952 West 6000 South, Rexburg, Idaho. A visitation will be held prior to the service on Saturday from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Interment will be at the Ucon Cemetery.