Doris Mangus Hoffman

Sept. 16, 1924 – Oct. 17, 2015

Doris Mangus Hoffman died Oct. 17, 2015, at the age of 91, at the New Horizon’s Care Center in Lovell. She was born Sept. 16, 1924, in Byron, to Jake Ferrell and Mary Ellen Watts Mangus.Doris married Norman (Dutch) Hoffman Jan. 7, 1942, in Lovell. Doris and Dutch were blessed with three sons, Bill, Noel and John, and one daughter, Susan. Their marriage was sealed in the Idaho Falls Temple on June 18, 1965. When her brother Henry was killed in an oil field accident, Doris and Dutch became legal guardians of his three children, Doyle, Gerald and Patricia. They also had Doris’s younger brother Ferrell living with them after he told his parents he was leaving California and going home.[caption id="attachment_10476" align="alignright" width="203"] Doris Mangus Hoffman[/caption]Doris worked at the Lovell Lunchroom for nearly 30 years, eventually becoming the manager and retiring. She worked in the springtime cleaning and power raking lawns, and after school she cleaned houses. She and Dutch ran the Red Cliff Marina and Dutch’s Snack Shack for seven years at Horseshoe Bend, and people came from miles around for a hamburger or chicken. Later, they opened S&K Thrift Shop.Doris enjoyed participating in bowling and softball and won numerous awards for both. She was even inducted into the Montana Softball Hall of Fame. She enjoyed all kinds of sporting events and rarely missed any of her children or grandchildren’s games.Christmas was one of Doris’s favorite times of year. She enjoyed everything from cutting and selling trees to making wreaths and decorating everywhere in the house and yard from top to bottom.Doris was preceded in death by the love of her life, Dutch, her parents Jake Ferrell and Mary Ellen, sisters Irene, Lawana and Macie, brother Henry and sons Noel, Doyle and Gerald.Survivors are sons William (Sandy) and John (Cheri), daughters Susan Moore and Pat Proffit (Larry), daughter-in-law Leslie Hoffman, brother Ferrell (Janice) Mangus, 14 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.Services were held on Oct. 21, 2015, at the LDS Church in Lovell. Burial was in the Lovell Cemetery.