Mary Louise Pietsch Ellsworth

Mrs. Ellsworth died Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003, at Brandon Woods Retirement Community.

She was born in Winnetka, Ill., the daughter of William S. and Fannie Edith (Newell) Dillon.

Mrs. Ellsworth was a graduate of the Roycemore School in Evanston, Ill., and received bachelor’s degree in psychology from Northwestern University. She lived in Santa Monica, Calif.; Birmingham, Mich., and Santee, S.C., before moving to Lawrence in 1993.

Mrs. Ellsworth was a member of the Catholic Church, Alvamar Country Club and the Alvamar Women’s Golf Assn.

She married John O.C. Pietsch on Nov. 23, 1940, in Winnetka. He died Dec. 14, 1986. She married Harold F. Ellsworth on Sept. 2, 1995. He died Feb. 1, 2000.

Survivors include her daughter, Joan Wilhite Stephens, Lawrence; two sons, John B. Pietsch, Nashville, and James D. Pietsch, New Albany, Ind; a stepdaughter, Anne Wigglesworth, New York City; a stepson, Steve Ellsworth, Lawrence; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to Douglas County Visiting Nurses Assn. or the Heart of America Hospice, sent in care of the funeral home.