Mary Lou Diebolt, homemaker and retired retailer, died Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at her home in Lake Waukomis, MO at the age of 95.
Private funeral services will be held with interment in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery. The final arrangements have been entrusted to the Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home, Atchison, Kansas.
Mary Lou was born September 26, 1921 in Moline, Kansas the daughter of William Francis and Nellie May Hill.
She worked as an executive secretary at Beechcraft during World War II. Mary Lou and her husband moved to Atchison, KS where Mr. Diebolt opened the Diebolt Clothing Co. in 1962. Mrs. Diebolt took over Diebolt's women's department and ran it until it closed in 1985.
She was a member of St. Benedict's Church in Atchison.
She is survived by her daughters, Mary Carol (Daniel) Garrity of Lake Waukomis, Judith Diebolt of Grosse Pointe Farms, MI a son, Timothy (Deanna) Diebolt of Leawood. Also surviving are three granddaughters, Lydia Diebolt, Rebecca Diebolt Hever, Kelly Garrity Bieri and three great grandchildren.