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Doris Eileen Allsup
May 15, 1927 - January 03, 2010
Oskaloosa, Iowa
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| Visitation: will begin at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, January 06, 2010 at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel. The family will be present from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. to greet visitors. |
| Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m., Thursday morning, January 07, 2010 at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel with Rev. David Childers of the First Church of the Nazarene officiating. |
Interment: White Oak Cemetery in White Oak Township, Mahaska County, Iowa.
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Doris passed away Sunday evening at Northern Mahaska Nursing & Rehab in Oskaloosa at the age of 82 years, 7 months and 19 day.
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Doris Eileen Allsup, daughter of Van Albert and Mabel Edith Kirk Merriman, was born May 15, 1927 in Monte Vista, Colo. As a young child, the family moved to Oskaloosa and Doris was a 1945 graduate of Oskaloosa High School. She married Edgar Dean Allsup on November 7, 1948 in Oskaloosa where they made their home. Dean and Doris owned and operated the Donut Shop from 1977-1979. Doris worked at Alsop’s Department Store in the women’s clothing department and later as a sales clerk for Snider’s Inc., and The Sunflower. She retired in 1990. Doris attended the First Church of the Nazarene and was a member of King’s Daughters and Sons and a former member of the Oskaloosa Chapter 146 O.E.S.
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Her family includes her daughter and son-in-law, Joan and John Szopinski of Green Bay, Wis. and a sister, Alice Chamberlin of Fairfield Bay, Ark.
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Besides her parents, Doris was preceded in death by her husband Dean, their daughter Pam and two sisters: Dorothy Merriman (as a young child) and Helen Hendricks. Doris’s life revolved around caring for her family and her friends. This is who she was.
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Memorials may be made to Imagine the Possibilities or the Christian Opportunity Center.
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