Doris Hazel Gallup Rommel

Doris Jean Hazel Gallup was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Douglas and Hazel Haslip Gallup. Doris was a young child when her family moved to Eveleth, Minnesota, where she grew up. After graduating from Eveleth High School and studying chemical engineering at community colleges in Eveleth and Bimidji, Minnesota, she came to Seattle, in January 1942 and was hired as an engineer for the Boeing Co. There she met her future husband, Thomas Rommel, another engineer who was hired a few months before her. They were married in Seattle on January 22, 1944. Doris left Boeing after World War II to become a full-time homemaker, mother and community volunteer. She was active in church, school, Scouting and other activities while her daughter and two sons were growing up at the family home in the Loyal Heights neighborhood in Ballard. After her children were grown, Doris worked part-time for a technical consulting agency finally retiring at age 75. She also volunteered time for the Girl Scouts into her 70s teaching Red Cross first aid classes to girls in area troops. She also was a King County elections officer for several years and also volunteered time at the Ballard Senior Center helping seniors prepare income tax returns. Doris was preceded in death by her husband, Tom, in 1982, and a brother, Richard Gallup, in 2001. She is survived by her daughter, Phyllecia Rommel of Seattle; two sons, Jeff Rommel of Seattle and Bruce Rommel of Auburn; two granddaughters, Meghanne Luckmann Munden and Emilie Rommel, and a great-granddaughter, Eliana Munden, all of Auburn; a brother, Jim Gallup of Minneapolis; two sisters, Phyllis E. ?Peg? Mitchell of Estacada, Oregon and Delores Gallup Wright of Cary, Illinois; and numerous nephews, nieces, cousins and aunts.

''For God so loved the world that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.''

-John 3:16