Doris B. Williams, 93

Doris B. Williams, 93, passed away Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009, at Heritage Place in Kalispell. She was born Aug. 20, 1915, in Dunkirk to Gabriel and Fern (Jackson) Burrell. Doris grew up in Kalispell, where she attended elementary and high school.

On July 3, 1939, she married Darreld DeVel Williams of Whitefish. After the death of her husband in Harlem in 1962, she attended school in Havre, becoming a licensed practical nurse. She worked at the old Kalispell Hospital and the new Regional Hospital for about 20 years. She loved nursing, exchanging recipes and patterns with many of her patients, and she often visited them after they went home.

Her retirement was filled with family, friends and volunteer work for the blood bank and TOPS, doing crafts, traveling all around the world and United States, and spending time with her beloved Bible Presbyterian Church family. She maintained a keen interest in everyone she met. Her frequency at Syke's made it impossible for her to pay more than 10 cents a cup for coffee anywhere else.

Doris was preceded in death by her husband, Darreld; her parents; two brothers, Marshall and Gerald Burrell, and his wife, Lois; and two sisters, Maxine Wesp and Marjory Taylor.

She is survived by her two children, her daughter, Patricia Dolven and husband, Fred, of Reno, Nev., and her son, Richard Williams and Jennifer Reid of Anchorage, Alaska; four grandchildren, Brian and wife, Dawn, Davin, Bryce, Danica and husband, Marc; five great-grandchildren, Ian, Amber, Jacob, Evan and Elijah; one sister, Elva Ulrich, of Dongola, Ill.; with many beloved nieces, nephews, friends, and her church family

Memorial services to celebrate and remember her life will be held this summer at Johnson-Gloschat Funeral Home in August, with an urn burial afterward at C.E. Conrad Memorial Cemetery.

Johnson Mortuary and Crematory is caring for Doris' family. You are invited to go to www.johnsonmortuary.com to offer condolences and sign Doris' guest book.