Elizabeth ‘Ibby’ Malott

Mrs. Malott died Sunday, May 18, 2003.

She was born Aug. 6, 1930, in Duluth, Minn., the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Hubert. She grew up in the Orient but was evacuated to Canada just before World War II. She came to the United States after the war and graduated from high school in Connecticut and from Scripps College, part of the Claremont Colleges in California, in 1953. She moved to New York after college and later to Chicago.

Mrs. Malott worked for the Near East College Assn., Council on Foreign Relations and in the editorial department of American Heritage Magazine.

She was a Girl Scout leader and Boy Scout den mother, a member of the Textile Committee of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Committee of Northwestern University Dental School, Scripps College Board of Trustees and worked with programs dealing with osteoporosis. She served on the Women’s Boards of the Field Museum, Northwestern University and University of Chicago and was chairwoman of the Illinois Public Arts Advisory Committee. She was also a trustee and regent of Lincoln Academy of Illinois and member of the Junior League and Arts Club of Chicago.

Her husband is the son of former KU Chancellor Deane Malott, and the family donated the funds to build the Malott Gateway at 15th and Iowa streets.

She married Robert H. Malott in 1960. He survives of the home.

Other survivors include two daughters, Elizabeth M. Pohle, New Canaan, Conn., and Barbara M. Kizzian, Chicago; a son, R. Deane Malott, Palo Alto, Calif.; three sisters, Renee Spencer, Winchester, Mass., Marcia Ledogar, Guttenburg, N.J., and Joey Williams, Ridgefield, Conn.; and five grandchildren.