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Doris Shape Bolken, age 90, of Milbank, SD, formerly of Valley City, ND, died Saturday, April 19th at the Golden Living Center, Milbank, SD.  A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Friday, April 25th at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Valley City.  Visitation will be held one hour before the service at the church on Friday afternoon.  Interment will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery near Valley City.

    Doris Elaine Hendrickson, the daughter of Peter and Petra (Johnson) Hendrickson, was born June 14, 1923 on the family farm near Benson Corner, LaMoure County, ND.  She was the youngest of nine children.  Doris graduated from LaMoure High School in 1942.  She married Howard Shape and lived on a farm south of Sanborn, ND until Howard’s retirement from farming.  The couple then moved to Valley City, ND where Doris worked for J.C. Penney’s and then the ASCS office until her retirement in 1975. Howard passed away in 1982.  After her retirement, Doris spent her winters in Yuma, AZ and her summers in Hazen and Bismarck, ND.  She married Clarence Bolken in Yuma, AZ in March, 2002.  After Clarence’s death in August, 2009, Doris moved to Milbank, SD to the Park Place Assisted Living Center.  Doris moved to the Golden Living Center’s Alzheimer’s unit in 2011.

    Doris is survived by her son Lynn Shape, Fargo, ND; grandsons Ken Shape, Winter Garden, FL and Joe (Bethany) Shape, Oveido, FL; granddaughter, Brittany Shape, Fargo, ND; daughter Judy (Mike) Weisgram, Pierre, SD; granddaughter, Molly (Chris) Maxwell, Pierre, SD; great-grandsons Ben and Sam Maxwell; granddaughter, Julia (Todd) Linter, Minneapolis, MN; one future great-grandchild to be born in May; daughter Kathy (Boyd) Sussex, Big Stone Lake, SD; grandson, Jackson (Val) Sussex, Grand Forks, ND; one sister Laura Gardner, Lisbon, ND.

    Funeral arrangements by the Lerud Schuldt Funeral Home of Valley City, ND.  Online guestbook available at lerudschuldt.com.

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