Age 87, Lawton - Services will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday in the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church with Rev. Rod Ozmun, Pastor, officiating. Mrs. Mortensen died Friday at a local hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Burial will be at a later date in Quitman, Georgia. She was born on June 6, 1923 in Quitman, Georgia to Arthur N. Sr. and Irene (DeVane) Walton. She was raised and completed high school in Quitman, GA. She graduated from Florida State College for Women (now FSU) with a B.A. in Home Economics, 1944. She was a member of Delta Zeta sorority. She was first employed as an adult volunteer educator by Girl Scouts of America in Racine, WI and 2 years later transferred to a similar position in Oak Ridge, TN, where she met her future husband. She married John Paul Mortensen in Quitman, GA in 1947. She continued to work as Girl Scout executive in TN and then Nassau County, NY until her first son was born in 1952. Following her husband's work transfer to Puerto Rico, she learned Spanish, which later inspired her to teach English as a second language to Spanish-speaking refugees in the early 1960s in Greensboro, NC. She returned to work as Girl Scout executive in NC and in later years worked as bookkeeper for her husband's CPA practice. She enjoyed sewing and designing, making clothing for herself and her daughter all her life, and also made band uniforms for Walton High School, Marietta, GA and ballet costumes for Cobb-Marietta ballet. She enjoyed gardening, hiking and square dancing. She was an active member in social ministry and choir for First Lutheran Church (Greensboro), Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (Marietta) and a charter member with her husband Paul of Incarnation Lutheran Church (Marietta). Most recently she was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Lawton. She was predeceased by her husband Paul shortly after their 50th wedding anniversary, and by her siblings Norman, Glenn and Alice. She is survived by her three children, Dr. Eric Mortensen, CDR (MC) USN (ret) and his wife Charlotte, Lawton, Alan Mortensen, CDR USNR and his wife Theresa, St. Charles, MO, and Dr. Amy Mortensen, CAPT (MC) USN and her husband Chris Thorne HMCS USN, Carlsbad, CA, and by seven grandchildren, Steven, Scott, Rachel, Peter, and Kirsten Mortensen, Christopher and David Thorne. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday from 6:30 - 8:30 pm.