Alice Ann Doss, 87, formerly of Bartlesville OK and Bancroft NE

Alice Ann Doss, age 87, formerly of Bartlesville, Oklahoma & Bancroft, Nebraska passed away Friday, April 10, 2015 at the Sterling House Assisted Living Community in Enid, Oklahoma.  Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Memorial Park Cemetery.   Memorial services will follow at 11 a.m. at Redeemer Lutheran Church. Visitation will be at Stumpff Funeral Home in Bartlesville, Oklahoma will be held Monday, April 13th, from 9 a.m.-9 p.m.   Memorials can be made to Redeemer Lutheran Church 3700 Woodland Rd, Bartlesville, OK 74006 or St. Paul’s Lutheran Church 1626 E Broadway Ave, Enid, OK 73701.  Friends may sign the online guest book and leave condolences at http://www.stumpff.org.  Funeral services are under the direction of Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Alice Ann (Kirchenwitz) Doss was born January 21, 1928 in Bancroft, NE to Paul Kirchenwitz and Bertha Altemeister Kirchenwitz. She attended elementary school at District 50 in rural Nebraska and Zion Lutheran School. She was confirmed April 6, 1941 at Zion Lutheran Church near Bancroft, NE and graduated from Bancroft High School in the class of 1945. She completed Commercial Extension Business School in Omaha in 1946. She met Richard Doss while working at the Merchant Biscuit Company in Omaha, NE, where she was a secretary and he rolled dough. They were married at the First Lutheran Church in Omaha on May 27, 1949.

Richard and Alice moved to Bartlesville in 1952 where Richard had accepted a job with Phillips 66, and Alice was a homemaker. They were members of Redeemer Lutheran Church, where Alice was active in LWML, taught Sunday School, and could usually be found working in the kitchen during church dinners or wedding receptions.

Richard and Alice raised three sons, Robert, Michael, and James, and Alice served as a Boy Scout den-mother for several years. Later, when they had a daughter, Kathryn, Alice again volunteered as a Girl Scout Brownie and 4-H leader. Alice also enjoyed playing in bridge club, her ladies Circle bible study, golfing in the Adams Ladies’ Golf League, the Rambling Rose Club, and Red Hat/Purple Shirt ladies’ group. She was talented at crocheting and gardening, and especially loved growing roses.

Alice loved to travel, and she and Richard took several trips both overseas and within the United States. After Richards’ retirement from Phillips 66, they enjoyed spending their summers in Colorado in their fifth wheel camper. They celebrated their 50thwedding anniversary by hosting a reunion with their children and grandchildren in Colorado Springs in 2009. Even after Richard’s death in 2002, Alice was able to take trips with the Gold Club in Bartlesville.

Alice moved to Enid in 2010, where she lived at the Sterling House Assisted Living Community. Alice attended St. Paul’s Lutheran Church after moving to Enid.

The family would like to thank the kind staff of the Sterling House in Enid and Hospice Circle of Love for their compassionate and loving care for Alice, as well as the special friends at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church who provided transportation and assistance at church, making it possible for her to attend church even as her mobility declined.

Alice is survived by one sister, Hazel Winchell of Omaha, NE; four children, Robert and his wife Carey of Lexington, KY; Michael and his wife Phoebe of Fort Worth, TX; James and his wife Judy of Cleveland, TX; and Kathryn and her husband Bobby of Enid, OK. Alice also has 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren plus one more on the way. Alice is preceded in death by her parents, Paul and Bertha Kirchenwitz, her husband, Richard Doss and her daughter-in-law, Connie Doss.