Dorothy Alma Doll McClellan
July 14, 1922 - July 27, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:09 AM PDT
Vale
Dorothy was born July 14, 1922, in Walla Walla, Wash., to Claude Alvin Doll and Florence Vernon Doll. She died at home while watering her flowers, Sunday, July 27, 2008.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1, 2008, at the Vale LDS Church with a viewing at 10 a.m. in the Relief Society Room. Interment will be at Valley View Cemetery following the service.
When she was a young girl, her family moved to Nampa, where she attended school through the 10th grade. She quit high school to attend the Superior Beauty School. She washed the towels, uniforms and swept the floors to pay for her training. After graduating from beauty school, she worked at Varney’s Beauty Shop in Nampa.
She married Clifton McClellan April 5, 1942, in Nampa, and they were later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple in 1951.
They moved to Vale in 1946 to farm with Clifton’s parents. She operated a beauty shop out of her home for a time, until taking care of her children and helping on the farm became her full-time occupation.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had several church callings.
She is survived by her four children, sons, Gary (Ann) McClellan, of Vale, and Jake (Dru) McClellan, of Alabama, daughters, Sandy (Steve) Bates, of Vale, and Vicki Cordova, of Vale; 14 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Clifton, her parents, one brother and two sisters and a grandson.
Condolences for the family may be made at www.lienkaemper-thomason.com.
