Mary Lou Rutti, 82, formerly of Marysville, died Monday, June 26, 2017 at Medicalodges Jackson County in Holton.
 
She was born June 7, 1935 at Humboldt, Nebraska, the daughter of Orval and Thelma Spalding Cudney.  She graduated from Hiawatha High School in 1952.
 
Mary Lou had worked Downards Grocery Store and at Tension Envelope in Marysville.
 
She was a member of the Marysville Garden Club, Order of Eastern Star, Pony Express Riders, and the Auxiliary to the American Legion and the Moose Lodge, all at Marysville.
 
She married Don Eckart.  They were divorced.  She married Milan Rutti in 1978.  He died in October of 2008.
 
Survivors include a son, Donald Max Eckart, II, Topeka; two daughters, Cora Sue Kramer and husband Bob, Holton and Jody Ellen King and husband, Stephen, Riverside, MO; sixteen grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.
 
Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, June 30th at the Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Holton.  Burial will follow in the Holton Cemetery.  Mary Lou will lie in state Thursday at the funeral home where family and friends will meet from 10:00 a.m. Friday until service time.  Memorials are suggested to the Mary Lou Rutti Memorial Fund, to be designated later, and may be sent in care of the funeral home, PO Box 1034, 66436.  On-line condolences may be made at chapeloaksfuneralhome.com