Constance Kay (Lundberg) Erickson died peacefully in her home on July 12 surrounded by family and friends after an 8-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 71 years old. Constance was born to Horace Lundberg and Nedra Hurst, the third of four children: Meredith Simmons, Elizabeth Schlemmer, and Philip Lundberg, all of whom survive her. Constance married Boyd C Erickson (1922-2002) in 1981 into a family of five boys – Robert Boyd, Richard Jeremy, Thomas Boud, Stephen Charles, and James William – after which they had a sixth son, Philip Joseph. She loved being a grandma, not only to her 21 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren, but also countless others for whom she was an adopted "Gram." She was also a deeply caring friend who readily brought others into her family as well. Constance was a voracious reader, consuming everything from Pogo comics to Robert Burns. Above all, she loved Tolkien's Lord of the Rings , having read them first shortly after they were originally written. As a teenager and a young adult, Constance was heavily engaged in social activism, fighting for improvements in a wide range of issues, including desegregation, peaceful resolutions to international conflict and environmental protection. During her early college years, Constance gained a reputation for her repertoire as a folk singer. As a lover of stories and cultures, she collected hundreds of songs and would attract hordes of other singers to her concerts to learn them from her. After receiving her Master's degree in English at Arizona State University, she pursued and received her JD from the University of Utah Law School. As a lawyer, she was an associate, then partner, at Parsons, Behle and Latimer in Salt Lake City, becoming the first woman partner in a major law firm in Utah. She was Counsel to the President's Council on Environmental Quality from 1974–76 in the Ford White House, and Vice-President of Rocky Mountain Industrial and Environmental Engineering, an envi­ronmental engineering consulting firm, from 1984–1994. Constance became a professor at the BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1983 after serving as an adjunct profes­sor at the University of Utah College of Law and Utah State University College of Natural Resources. At BYU, she served as an associate dean of the law school and was the founding dean and library director of the Howard W. Hunter Law Library. She also served with American Inns of Court for 12 years and was a director of organizations ranging from the Utah Academic Library Consortium to the Utah Opera. Constance was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in positions in the Relief Society, the Young Women, the Primary, Sunday School and in the Timpanogos Temple. She loved service and people and took every chance she could to lift others in need. There will be a service celebrating her life on September 1 at 11:30 a.m. at the Orem Sunset Heights Stake Center, 1200 S. 400 W, Orem. If desired, donations can be made in her name to the University of Utah to be used to support KUER Public Radio or to the Utah Symphony & Opera.