Mary Louise Lott

Mary Louise Konold Lott, 90, loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister, passed away peacefully at her home on July 12, 2018 surrounded by her husband and children.

Mary was born October 15, 1927, daughter of Ira Hobson Konold and Sylvia Rose Rosenberg Konold, in Chicago, Illinois. She spent her early years being raised by her grandparents in American Fork, Utah. After her grandmother’s passing she went to live with her father and her step-mother. Later she lived with her Aunt Blanche, her cousins Al Konold and Roy Konold and their families.

She met her future husband on a ditch bank in Mud Lake, Idaho. When Elden ask her to marry him at the end of that vacation, she answered, “We are too young!” Many years later, she said, “Yes!” Elden and Mary were married in the Idaho Falls Temple on December 10, 1952.

Mary and Elden called many places home. Mud Lake, Idaho; Biloxi Mississippi; Sioux Lookout; Ontario, Canada; Sandy, Utah; Ogden, Utah; Layton, Utah: Gallup, New Mexico; LaVerKin, Utah; Plain City, Utah; Provo, Utah; Orem, Utah; Pleasant Grove, Utah; Sugar City, Idaho, with Rexburg, Idaho becoming their final destination.

Mary gave birth to two children. As a wife, mother, she was an example of selfless devotion to family, friends and all those around her.

Mary served in numerous callings in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She talked fondly of her time serving as the primary teacher of her son and his “friends.” She loved to go visiting teaching and ministering to the sisters in her ward.

She was a wonderful seamstress, great cook, organized bookkeeper and the best cookie baker ever! She spent most of her adult life working on Family History and we are sure that her reunion with all of her relatives was a joyous one.

Mary is survived by her husband, Elden Glen Lott; her children David (Shellie) Lott of West Jordan, Utah; and Laurie Lee of Apple Valley, California; 14 grandchildren, and 23 great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by: one child (Janet), one son in law (John), one grandchild (Cindy Louise), one great grandchild (George Wallace Decklin), four brothers, and one sister.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 21, at Hibbard LDS chapel, at 2029 North 3000 West, in Rexburg, with Bishop Dwight Wray officiating. A viewing for friends and family will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10-10:45 a.m., both times at the Hibbard LDS Chapel. Burial will be in the Ucon Cemetery under the direction of Eckersell Funeral Home.