Mary Louise (nee Morton) Stephens
Obituary
Mary Louise (nee Morton) Stephens, 88, of Westport, passed away quietly in her daughter’s home in Tucson, AZ on May 06,2022.
Born Mary Louse Morton on November 10, 1933 in Renovo Hospital to Frank C. and Harriet R. (Arndt) Morton, Mary Louise grew up in Westport first attending Westport School, then Renovo High School.
After school she worked at Newberry’s as a clerk where she met Gordon C. “Corkey” Stephens. They married in 1954 and moved to Buffalo, NY in 1955, eventually settling in Springville, NY to raise their 3 children.
Mary Louise attended Morton’s Corners Baptist Church where she was active for many years as a Sunday School teacher, teaching nursery and later the teenage girls classes. She worked at a toy maker at Fisher Price Toys and later at Kissing Bridge Ski Resort in the ticket booth. She loved both jobs and made many friends at work and church.
Mary Louise and “Corkey” moved back to Westport in 1997 where they lived for several years. After returning to Westport, she attended Westport Methodist Church and later Renovo Methodist Church. She began ‘snow-birding’ to her daughter’s home in Arizona in 2007. Due to ill health, she was unable to return to her beloved home in Westport in the summer of 2021. She was under Hospice care at the end of her life for medical care.
She is survived by her three children, Virginia “Ginnie” Kovacik, Tina Marie Riehle (James), Gordon C. (Jacquie) and their children, Charles Kovacik, Jessica Lehr, and Nicholas Stephens, respectively.
She is also survived by three great-grandchildren (Anna, Sean and Mary Catherine Lehr).
Preceding her in death were her parents and four siblings (Catherine Crowe, Kenneth Morton, Virginia Brigham, and Robert Morton).
She is survived by one brother William D. Morton Sr. of Dover, Delaware, as well as numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
A memorial service will be scheduled later in the year with interment of ashes in Noyes Cemetery.
