Doris L. Trepp

At age 93, she died peacefully on November 15, 2010. Doris was born in Seattle on September 3, 1917, the only child of Charles Alexander and Ella Stacy Lincoln. She attended Queen Anne High School and graduated from St. Mary's Academy in Portland, Oregon before graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Washington. Soon after college, she married the love of her life and life-partner, Martin Raymond Trepp. They met at the University of Washington: School of Journalism where he was the editor of Columns Magazine. Their first home was in the Laurelhurst neighborhood, only about a mile from the University of Washington campus where they had met. They loved the neighborhood and ended up raising their three children there.

Doris was a very positive person who firmly believed that a person only gets out of life what he puts in to it, and she really "walked the walk." She loved her many friends, old ones like her Sigma Kappa sorority sisters from her college days whom she kept in contact with well up into her eighties and her many newer friends acquired along her road of life. She loved doing all kinds of volunteer work, especially for her Children's Hospital guild and St. Stephen's Church.

Doris's life was not without tragedy, losing her beloved husband Martin in 1985, her granddaughter Stacy in 1992 and her daughter Helen in 2005. Although she was devastated and heartbroken by each of these painful losses, she had the resilience to pick herself up and go on, and still really enjoy her life. Doris was a "die hard" Husky football fan and Tyee season ticket holder and just loved going to the games and cheering like crazy. She took many trips all over the world and always seemed to come home invigorated and full of new life. We in the family are really kind of surprised that she died at only ninety-three. She was fondly referred to as our Timex watch- "takes a licking and keeps on ticking."

Doris is survived by her son David Trepp (Marcia) and daughter Lorna Montgomery (Alan), four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. The family would like to thank Padma and all the caregivers at Anderson House who gave Doris so much kindness and loving care these last few years of her life.

Doris will be greatly missed by her family and many friends.