Mary Lou Spaulding of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away at her home on August 14, 2018 at the age of 78. Mary Lou was born to Claude and Hilda Thacker of Coville, Washington on June 30, 1940, in the front seat of her dad’s pickup in front of the hospital. She was seventh child of eleven. In 1962, at the age of 22, she married the love of her life, Brent Spaulding in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple.

Mary Lou was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She loved flowers, gardening, music of all sorts, and a good laugh. Though she stood at 4 feet, 9 inches, her family remembers her having a huge and feisty spirit as well as a patient and loving heart.

She will be greatly missed by her surviving family, though they take comfort knowing she is happy in heaven doing cart wheels again.

She is survived by her husband, Brent Spaulding, her children; Marilyn (Dale) Burns, Merlin (Nancy) Spaulding, Catherine (Russell) Robertson, Carlene Spaulding and Barbara (Brent) Sessions, her grandchildren; Don (Katie) Burns, Chelsea (Curtis) Mayor, Allison (James) Flinn, Darrel Burns, Mary Ann Spaulding, Kiana Robertson, Karli Sessions and Treagan Sessions, her great-grandchildren; Kyree Burns, Joshua Burns, Jayne Burns and Scarlette Burns, her brothers; Chad (Barbara) Thacker, Dallas (Janet) Thacker and Nile (Gloria) Thacker and her brother-in-law, Carl Jensen.

She was preceded in death by a great-granddaughter, Helen Burns, six sisters; Claude Thacker, Joyce (Gene) Maughn, Anne (Jack) Stokes, Faye (Ted) Taylor, Merle (Carl) Jenson, Linda Compton and one brother, Don Thacker.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 18, 2018 at the Henry Fork Stake Center. The family will receive friends Friday evening from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Flamm Funeral Home and again from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. at the church prior to services. Interment will be in the Burton Cemetery.