Mary Ellen Rollins

DANCING TOGETHER AGAIN

Mary E. Rollins

MTN. GREEN a€" Mary Ellen Bybee Rollins of Mountain Green, Morgan County, Utah, passed away Sunday, January 27, 2008 at Ogden Regional Medical Center surrounded by her family.

She was born June 19, 1915 at the family home in Uintah, the fifth of ten children to Robert Oscar and Mary Elizabeth Goodwin Bybee. Her early school days were spent in a one-room school in Uintah, ultimately graduating from Weber High School.

On June 10, 1935, she married Lee Bybee Rollins in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She spent all of her married life on the Rollins Family Ranch in Mountain Green. Four children were born to Lee and Ellen: Barbara (Kenneth, deceased) Rock, Farmington; "Mike" Marlow Jay (Dixie), Mountain Green; Leah (Kent) Nichols, Henefer, UT; and Mrs. Gayleen (John Rizzo) Rollins, Plainwell, MI. Lee died on April 30, 1990.

Early married summers were spent in her little kitchen in the cabin cooking for hired men who came to help with the summer harvests. They moved across the street in 1939 when Lee built the house in which they lived and raised their family.

Dancing was a favorite activity and they attended all the dances in the little towns. Then they found square dancing, joining the Whitney Whirlers where they made lifelong friends.

Ellen was an accomplished homemaker known by family members as a great cook, her Chiffon Cakes consistently taking the prize at the county fair. She was an accomplished seamstress and loved quilting, embroidery and crochet. Her home was immaculate, always inviting and welcoming to visitors.

Many happy hours were spent on picnics at "Burton" and fishing and picnicking at the reservoir. Lee and Ellen had their favorite picnic spot in the hills, near the dry farm.

She loved the mountains that surrounded her home, calling them, "My Mountains".

As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she had served as Primary President and counselor in the Relief Society among others.

Ellen served as a volunteer 4-H Leader in Morgan County.

She had been employed briefly at the tomato cannery in Ogden and as a seamstress at Utah Woolen Mills.

Endless gratitude to Marlow, Dixie and Kerry who made it possible for her to live in her own home to the end of her days.

Surviving are her children, one sister, Verna B. Rollins, Mtn. Green; and her sisters-in-law Pearl Bybee, Washington Terrace; Nelda Shephard, Ogden; brother-in-law, Leonard Byington, Ogden, UT; 13 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were one son-in-law, one grandson, four brothers and three sisters.

Graveside services will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. at Mtn. Green Cemetery.

Friends and family may call at Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd., on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Thursday 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Thanks to the physicians, nurses and staff at Ogden Regional Medical Center for their tender care.