Doris Darlene (Ross) Williams passed away Saturday December 24th 2011 at her home in South Sioux City, Nebraska, following a lengthy illness.
Funeral services will be held 2 pm Thursday, December 29, 2011 at Riverside Lutheran Church with Rev. Charles Wolff officiating. Burial will be in Logan Park Cemetery. Visitation 5-8 pm Wednesday at the church with the family present. Arrangements are under the direction of Waterbury Funeral Service.
Doris was born at home in Sioux City, IA on September 7th, 1931, the daughter of Ernest and Sadie (Geihl) Ross. She went to work at the age of 14 waitressing at the Martin and Warrior Hotels in Sioux City. She graduated from Central High School in 1949. After high school she took business classes. She worked at House of Vision, Bekins, and Nutrina Mills before marrying Howard Williams on April 11th, 1958. She enjoyed being at home and raising her children and being a farm wife especially taking care of baby pigs on their farm near Merrill, Iowa. She again joined the workforce in 1975 and worked at JC Penney’s, was a bookkeeper at Collins Transfer and at I-Go Moving and Storage retiring from there in 1992.
Doris lived a full life and loved to be with people. She had many “forever friends” including her high school friend , Irene, Merrill friends – Patty and Donnie Schultz and their daughter Lori (who was like a granddaughter to Doris); Donita Cooper, Betty Fuller and Dorothy Bock. Her dear TOPS friends, Ona Finzen and Jennie Smith. TOPS played a very important part in her life as she was a member for 46 years and held many offices including area captain and was involved in planning many local, regional and state rallys. She was very proud of her affiliation and the friends she made through TOPS. Doris in recent years enjoyed the friends they met every Sunday at Exxon. Gordon and Neta were especially dear to Doris.
She was affectionately known to some of her family as Grama “Do-Do”. She enjoyed making patchwork and embroidered quilts for everyone she loved. She loved animals and had many dogs but the last dog she had was a Mini Schnauzer, Harley. Doris said Harley was part human. Harley provided love and enjoyment for several years.
Survivors include husband, Howard; and son, Richard (Heidi) Williams and grandchildren Jeremy Williams, Ricki-Marie Thomas, Sarah King, Brandon Williams, Michael Williams, Hannah Williams and twins, Seth Williams and Sadie Williams and five great-grandchildren; daughter, Lynn Anderson and grandchild, Jessica Anderson; and daughter Kathy (Steve) Koch and grandchildren, Kelsey Koch, Whitney Koch, and Taylor Koch; her sister, Barbara Daniels; and many nieces and nephews.She was preceded in death by her parents and her sisters, Evelyn Hall and Shirley Stormann.
Anyone who knew Doris had a special place in their heart for her.