Mary Louise Kulsick

Mary Lou left this life at the Hospice of the Valley facility in Surprise on Feb. 17, 2017. Mary Lou was born 1/22/1941 in Berea, Ohio to Frank J. and Louise C. (Wuerthele) Morscher. From her childhood, her interest in education was evident. She and the neighborhood children would play school, and she was the teacher. After graduating from St. John's College, in Cleveland, she began a teaching career that took her from inner city Chicago, to the small town of Salida, Colo., and on three occasions, to schools in and around Stamford, Conn.Mary Lou also taught overseas, at international schools in Moscow U.S.S.R., (during the Brezhnev era), and in Caracas, Venezuela. It was in Caracas that she met Ed Kulsick. After they returned to the States, they began dating long-distance: she was in Connecticut, he was in the Washington, D.C. area. They married in June, 1979. Mary Lou began a career with the Fairfax County, Va. Public School system, first as a classroom teacher, then a reading specialist, then an E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) teacher, and finally as an E.S.L. Resource teacher, developing materials for the classroom and supporting other E.S.L. teachers. After Mary Lou took early retirement, she and Ed moved West, first to Salt Lake City, Utah. While Ed continued working, Mary Lou immersed herself in genealogy research, at the Family History Library, and volunteered at a local school, and with the Adopt-a-Native-Elder program, which helps support the Elders on the Navajo Reservation, in Arizona and Utah. She also volunteered during the 2002 Winter Olympics, in Salt Lake City. After Ed retired, they relocated to Sun City West, Ariz.. Mary Lou continued her volunteer work, serving as an usher at the Phoenix Symphony and for events in Sun City West. She supported the New Life Center, a shelter for victims of abuse, was an avid reader and a life-long stamp collector.She is survived by her husband of 37 years, Edmund M. Kulsick; her brother, John (Mary Ann) Morscher, of Columbus, Ohio; sister, Suzanne (Peter) Loyd, of Medina, Ohio; sisters-in-law Cecilia Kulsick and Ann Marie Kulsick; and numerous nieces; nephews; grandnieces; and grandnephews.A memorial service will be held on Friday, Mar. 17, 2017, at 10 a.m., in the Powell Room of the Sun City West Foundation, 14465 R.H. Johnson Blvd., Sun City West.