Doris was born December 21, 1916 to Heiko and Nellie Maud Bruns in Wergland Township, Porter. She was the eldest of four children, with two sisters, Leona and Lorraine and a brother, Glen. Following high school graduation in Canby and a year of teacher training, she taught school in a one-room schoolhouse.
Doris moved to Connecticut for a time and worked as a maid. She loved the exhilarating sights and sounds of the ocean and developed a lifelong love for lighthouses during this time. She married Fred Johnston of Greenwich, CT. Three children were born to this union.
Doris and her children moved back to Porter. There she later met and married Fred Capp. They moved to a farm near Chokio. They had five children. The family moved to a farm near Clear Lake, SD, later moving to a farm near Villard in 1964.
Doris worked as a nurse's aide, then at age 51, she began technical college as the oldest student accepted in the practical nursing program. She was very proud to earn her licensed practical nurse (LPN) degree and worked as an LPN and charge nurse at Knute Nelson Nursing Home, Bethany Nursing Home and the Glenwood Retirement Home over a 15-year career.
Her husband, Fred, died in 1988 and Doris began the adventure of making a new life for herself. She left the farm and lived into her own apartment in Alexandria, then in Tulsa, OK and later with her daughter and family in Vermont and then Texas, while recuperating from bone breakages, surgeries and then a massive stroke. She moved to Knute Nelson Nursing Home in 2002 and remained there until the time of her death.
Doris was preceded in death by infant son, Richard Lee; her sister, Leona; her brother, Glen; her parents; and her husband, Fred.
(Echo Press, excerpts)
Doris moved to Connecticut for a time and worked as a maid. She loved the exhilarating sights and sounds of the ocean and developed a lifelong love for lighthouses during this time. She married Fred Johnston of Greenwich, CT. Three children were born to this union.
Doris and her children moved back to Porter. There she later met and married Fred Capp. They moved to a farm near Chokio. They had five children. The family moved to a farm near Clear Lake, SD, later moving to a farm near Villard in 1964.
Doris worked as a nurse's aide, then at age 51, she began technical college as the oldest student accepted in the practical nursing program. She was very proud to earn her licensed practical nurse (LPN) degree and worked as an LPN and charge nurse at Knute Nelson Nursing Home, Bethany Nursing Home and the Glenwood Retirement Home over a 15-year career.
Her husband, Fred, died in 1988 and Doris began the adventure of making a new life for herself. She left the farm and lived into her own apartment in Alexandria, then in Tulsa, OK and later with her daughter and family in Vermont and then Texas, while recuperating from bone breakages, surgeries and then a massive stroke. She moved to Knute Nelson Nursing Home in 2002 and remained there until the time of her death.
Doris was preceded in death by infant son, Richard Lee; her sister, Leona; her brother, Glen; her parents; and her husband, Fred.
(Echo Press, excerpts)
Doris was born December 21, 1916 to Heiko and Nellie Maud Bruns in Wergland Township, Porter. She was the eldest of four children, with two sisters, Leona and Lorraine and a brother, Glen. Following high school graduation in Canby and a year of teacher training, she taught school in a one-room schoolhouse.
Doris moved to Connecticut for a time and worked as a maid. She loved the exhilarating sights and sounds of the ocean and developed a lifelong love for lighthouses during this time. She married Fred Johnston of Greenwich, CT. Three children were born to this union.
Doris and her children moved back to Porter. There she later met and married Fred Capp. They moved to a farm near Chokio. They had five children. The family moved to a farm near Clear Lake, SD, later moving to a farm near Villard in 1964.
Doris worked as a nurse's aide, then at age 51, she began technical college as the oldest student accepted in the practical nursing program. She was very proud to earn her licensed practical nurse (LPN) degree and worked as an LPN and charge nurse at Knute Nelson Nursing Home, Bethany Nursing Home and the Glenwood Retirement Home over a 15-year career.
Her husband, Fred, died in 1988 and Doris began the adventure of making a new life for herself. She left the farm and lived into her own apartment in Alexandria, then in Tulsa, OK and later with her daughter and family in Vermont and then Texas, while recuperating from bone breakages, surgeries and then a massive stroke. She moved to Knute Nelson Nursing Home in 2002 and remained there until the time of her death.
Doris was preceded in death by infant son, Richard Lee; her sister, Leona; her brother, Glen; her parents; and her husband, Fred.
(Echo Press, excerpts)
Doris moved to Connecticut for a time and worked as a maid. She loved the exhilarating sights and sounds of the ocean and developed a lifelong love for lighthouses during this time. She married Fred Johnston of Greenwich, CT. Three children were born to this union.
Doris and her children moved back to Porter. There she later met and married Fred Capp. They moved to a farm near Chokio. They had five children. The family moved to a farm near Clear Lake, SD, later moving to a farm near Villard in 1964.
Doris worked as a nurse's aide, then at age 51, she began technical college as the oldest student accepted in the practical nursing program. She was very proud to earn her licensed practical nurse (LPN) degree and worked as an LPN and charge nurse at Knute Nelson Nursing Home, Bethany Nursing Home and the Glenwood Retirement Home over a 15-year career.
Her husband, Fred, died in 1988 and Doris began the adventure of making a new life for herself. She left the farm and lived into her own apartment in Alexandria, then in Tulsa, OK and later with her daughter and family in Vermont and then Texas, while recuperating from bone breakages, surgeries and then a massive stroke. She moved to Knute Nelson Nursing Home in 2002 and remained there until the time of her death.
Doris was preceded in death by infant son, Richard Lee; her sister, Leona; her brother, Glen; her parents; and her husband, Fred.
(Echo Press, excerpts)
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