Doris I. "Dode" Dale, 96 of Bowman, North Dakota passed away on December 24, 2010 at the Southwest Healthcare Hospital in Bowman.
Funeral Services for Doris will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, December 31, 2010 at the Bowman Lutheran Church. Pastor Galen Strand will officiate with burial to follow in the Riverside Cemetery in Marmarth, ND. Visitation will be on Thursday, December 30, 2010 beginning at 11:00 a.m. at the Krebsbach and Kulseth Funeral Home Chapel and will continue on Thursday at the Southwest Healthcare Chapel beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Doris Irene Dale was born in Tomah, Wisconsin on July 22, 1914 the daughter of Arthur and Martha (Schleisner) Dale. As a young girl Doris moved to McIntosh, SD with her family and then in 1917 they moved to Marmarth, ND. Doris attended and graduated from Marmarth High School. She then attended the University of North Dakota. Doris moved to Amidon, ND where she worked for the county judge and in the agricultural adjustment office. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Doris accepted a Civil Service appointment with the Defense Department in Washington, D.C. and later moved to Philadelphia, PA, when the installation was transferred there. In 1975, when the Installation was again transferred to Ft. Monmouth, N.J. she took an early retirement and worked in the John Wanamaker Department Store in the Accounts Payable Department. Doris resided in Philadelphia until moving to Bowman in 1985.
Doris was preceded in death by her grandparents, parents, Arthur and Martha Dale, brother, Kenneth Dale, sisters, Clara Brown and Mildred Bjornson, nephew, Dale Williams, and nieces, Dinah Riegel, Sally Thompson and Virginia Beckman.
She is survived by her sister, Virginia Williams of Seattle, W.A. and several nieces, nephews, and great nieces and great nephews.
Doris was a member of the Bowman Lutheran Church, National Association of Retired Federal Employees, Pioneer Trails Museum and the Southwest Healthcare Auxiliary.
Krebsbach and Kulseth Funeral Service in charge of the arrangements.
Memorials are suggested to the Dakota Prairie Helping Hands, Badlands Ministries and the Sunrise Foundation.