Lewis Marcellus Mulkay died peacefully in the Homestead assisted living center, Rexburg Idaho on Saturday August 5, 2017 at the age of 85.

Lewis was born the youngest of 10 children on December 29, 1931 in Pacific Grove California, to Leslie and Annie (Jones) Mulkay. He grew up and graduated from both high school and Jr College in Pacific Grove. He was in the Navy during the Korean War and saw much of the world and made many lifelong friends. He then attended BYU where he met Paddy Hall. They married in 1955 in the Idaho Falls Temple

Lewis moved around to various teaching positions before earning his PhD from Utah State. He and Paddy settled in Rexburg in 1959 where he taught in the Biology Department at Ricks College. Through all these adventures they had five children, four sons and one daughter. Three were raised to adulthood.

Along with teaching, he spent his summers working in Yellowstone Park as a Park Ranger and on the grounds at the College. He helped with the College Wrestling program and he refereed high school football. He loved sports from the time he was involved himself as a student and throughout his life as an avid fan. He was known as Papa Lew to his neighborhood on Mohawk Avenue and he loved to share his homemade bread and his own variation of coleslaw.

Lewis was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many positions including being a senior missionary with his wife in the North Carolina, Raleigh Mission and as a Temple worker in Idaho Falls and Rexburg. But his all-time favorite church job was as a nursery leader after all his own family was gone.

Lewis is survived by sons Mark (Mary Ann) Mulkay, Bakersfield, California, Eric (Annette) Mulkay, Spring, Texas, daughter, Kelli (Jeff) Watts, Murtaugh, Idaho, sister Eberle (Lyman) Smith, Pleasant Grove, Utah, sister-in-law Marjorie Mulkay, Kiezer, Oregon, 13 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Leslie and Annie (Jones) Mulkay, his wife Paddy Hall Mulkay, son, Kyle Leslie Mulkay, an infant son, a granddaughter Amy Mulkay, Sisters Augusta (Art) Clarke, Dorthy (Earl) Lawton, Ruth (Gerald) Turner, Barbara (Reynold) Reim, Betty Jane (Marion) Hodgen, Phyllis (Kenneth) Roberts, and brothers Bill Mulkay and Bob Mulkay.

We would like to thank the staff of the Homestead and his Hospice nurse, Brittany, for their care and personal attention given during his final days.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, August 14 at the Rexburg LDS East Stake Center, 387 South 4th East, with Bishop Gary Baird of the Rexburg 10th Ward officiating. The family will receive friends Sunday August 13 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Flamm Funeral Home and Monday from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at the stake center prior to the service. Interment will be in the Rexburg Cemetery under the direction of Flamm Funeral Home.