Doris Ann Larson Chamberlin, 81

Doris Ann Larson Chamberlin, 81, passed away Monday, June 15, 2009, at Bonners Ferry Extended Care Facility.

Funeral services were held Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Bonners Ferry. Private burial was held in Grandview Cemetery.

Doris was born Oct. 2, 1927, in Havre, Mont., to Olaf T. and Anna C. Nelson Larson. She graduated from Bonners Ferry High School and lived in Bonners Ferry since the 1940s.

Doris married Charles “Clint” Clinton Chamberlin on Aug. 3, 1946, and raised a family in Bonners Ferry. During World War II, she worked at Mare Island Shipyard in California as a welder.

During the Korean Conflict, when Clint was in the Army, they were stationed in Tacoma, Wash. Doris was a member of the Legion Women's Auxiliary.

During her career, she was a nurse's aid at Bonners Ferry Hospital and a deputy for Boundary County Sheriff’s Department. Doris also owned a health food store for many years.

Before being diagnosed with lupus, she enjoyed outdoor activities with her family and friends and bowling. Doris and Clint enjoyed taking trips, flying around the area in their airplane.

Later in life, she enjoyed indoor activities including stamping and making cards, playing cards with her friends, crocheting, knitting and reading. She had also became quite “techy” and could find her way around on the computer, keeping records for her class reunions, bookkeeping records, editing photos and playing online computer games.

Doris loved growing roses and her gardens surrounding their home.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, four sisters and three brothers.

Doris is survived by her son, Robert Chamberlin and his wife, Susan of Chewelah, Wash.; daughter, Cynthia Morgan and her husband, William, of Indianola, Wash.; grandchildren Christopher and Bryan Morgan, and Holly Chamberlin; great-grandsons Cade and Peyton Morgan; and many nephews and nieces and their children.

Memorials may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church or Bonners Ferry Extended Care Facility.