Lois Ann Allen Frost

Lois Ann Allen Frost succumbed to her battle with cancer and passed away March 17, 2025 in her home in Mesa, AZ, sixteen hours short of her 82nd birthday. She was a wonderful and loving wife and mother to five children, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, neighbor, and friend. Ann was born on March 18, 1943, in Mesa, AZ, the first child of Ben Rich Allen and Lois Palmer Allen. She graduated from Mesa High School in 1961 and from Eastern Arizona Jr College in 1963. While attending summer school at Brigham Young University, she met a recently returned missionary, William James Frost. They dated through the summer and fall and were married and sealed for eternity on January 31, 1964 in the Mesa Arizona Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They spent the next 61 nomadic years living in Utah, New York, California, Missouri, back to Utah, again to New York and then finally to Mesa, AZ.

Ann was a lifelong member of the LDS church having been baptized at age eight in the hold of a ship sailing to South America with her parents and two younger sisters for Ben and Lois to serve a church mission. While there for only one year, Ann developed a great love for the Spanish speaking peoples. She would profess that her Spanish was not good, yet throughout her life she would speak in Spanish in public settings, without notes, for extended periods of time.

Ann loved her family, learning and sharing nutrition and medical knowledge, and the Lord, Jesus Christ. She served in many church callings, including Ward and Stake Primary President, counselor in multiple Relief Society Presidencies, Stake young women’s camp director (where she took the older girls camping at the 9,000 ft level of the Sierra Nevada Mountains), Temple Worker, and finally an Assistant to the Matron and then Matron in the Manhattan New York Temple.

Ann is survived by her husband, William James Frost; sons, Jeffrey Larsen Frost, Dennis Allen Frost, and William David Frost; daughters, Jeanine Williams and Barbara Ann Porter; brother, Ben Rich Allen, Jr; sisters, Donna Sue Weir, Jeannette Johnson, and Mary Jane Tryon; 15 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents, Ben Rich Allen and Lois Palmer Allen; brother-in-law, William David Tryon; daughters-in-law Kristen Carol Frost, and Simone Rachelle Frost; and great-granddaughter, Brylee Nicole Olson.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 am, Saturday, March 29 preceded by a viewing from 8:30 am to 9:45 am at the Harmony Ward building, 940 East Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ 85204. Funeral arrangements by Bunker’s Garden Chapel, Mesa, AZ Interment will be in the Mesa City Cemetery.