Doris Alieen Bingham, 95

Doris Alieen Bingham, 95, passed away Monday, July 25, 2005, at Brendan House in Kalispell.

Doris was born April 27, 1910, in Perth, Kan., to Edward E. and Mabel (Brashear) Smiley. She was raised and attended schools in Perth.

Doris married Herbert R. Bingham in Eldorado, Kan., in 1930. Doris and Herbert moved from Kansas to Cut Bank in 1936 with their four young boys.

Four more children were born in Cut Bank, where Doris raised the family.

In June of 2001, she moved to Greenwood Village Assisted Living in Kalispell, to be closer to her daughter Edra and family.

Illness caused her to have to move to Brendan House in 2005.

Doris worked as a cook at the rest home in Cut Bank for 14 years.

She was a charter member of the Women of the Moose. She loved gardening, raising beautiful flowers and quilting.

Doris was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Herbert R. Bingham; a daughter, Tanna Warehime; a son, Mervin Bingham; and two sisters, Pauline and Verna.

She is survived by children, Russell Bingham of Eagle River, Alaska, LeRoy Bingham of Pueblo West, Colo., Jimmy Bingham of Anderson, Calif., Herb Bingham of Pendroy, Edra Dresen of Columbia Falls, and Kay Griffith of Tualatin, Ore.; and more than 70 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 29, at Buffalo Hill Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, July 30, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Whitefish Stage Road in Kalispell. Burial will be afterward at C.E. Conrad Cemetery.

Buffalo Hill Funeral Home is caring for the family.