1928 – 2020
Guy Lott, Jr. passed away on June 19, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. He is survived by his son Karl Lott, his sister Helen Wanke, and his brother Frank Lott.
Guy lived a life devoted to education and world travel. He was born in West Virginia, to a family of 12 brothers and sisters. His family moved to New Jersey where he attended William Paterson College, before he decided to pursue a life in international education.
In 1953, he boarded a ship and traveled to India, to take up a teaching position in Woodstock School which is located in the Himalayan Mountains in India. It was in India where he met his wife, Mae Elizabeth Wiggins, who had traveled to India from her hometown of Pensacola, Florida to work in an orphanage in a neighboring village in the Himalayan Mountains. After what can only be imagined as an exotic romance, they were married and had two sons, Stephen and Karl, and as a family, they set out to see as much of the world as possible.
After living in India for ten years, the family moved to a number of countries in Asia – Pakistan, Kuwait, two different cities in Japan, and Taiwan, where Guy served as the headmaster of the local American schools and Mae worked as a teacher. In each place, Guy devoted himself to improving the American school, often building new campuses, and always impressing upon the community the importance of educational excellence and the value of arts and music. After Taipei, Guy and Mae switched continents and moved to Africa, living in Egypt and Kenya, before retiring in Mae’s hometown of Pensacola, Florida.
In all the places where they lived, it was Guy’s life work to support and mentor teachers and administrators, and to leave each place a better place than when he arrived. He lived a life full of adventure, wonder and love, and after 91 years, the time has now come for Guy to rest next to Mae.
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