Gertrude Minna Clara Doering

Gertrude Minna Clara Hoffmann was born on June 24, 1914, in Janesville, Minnesota to Julius and Martha Hoffmann. She was the eighth of nine siblings. She spent her formative years in Janesville, Cologne and Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended school, graduated and eventually met her husband Walton Doering, who was fresh out of the seminary as a Lutheran Minister. They settled in Rice Lake, Wisconsin after they received a call for Walton (Dad) to serve as pastor there.

They started their family with a daughter Judith, born in 1941, and six years later along came their son David. After moving to Rochester, Minnesota in 1949 to accept a call to serve there, they added daughter Kathryn to the family in 1950. The family lived in Rochester until 1960, when Dad was recruited to serve as pastor for a church in Arcadia, California. They lived in nearby Monrovia until Dad retired in 1977 when they relocated to Long Beach, where Gertrude has lived until the present. She and daughter Kathy have lived together there since Dad’s passing in 1991.

Gertrude was a professional mother, homemaker and minister’s wife, which can be a very demanding occupation at times. And she did it all extremely well. We will miss her immensely and cherish the memories.

Gertrude is preceded in death by her husband Walton, and is survived by one sister, Irene Gillogly (age 102), her three children Judy (Dan Rumsey), Dave (Marcia) and Kathy, four grandchildren (Lori Moses, Bryan Rumsey, Juliette Brown and Nicole Soley) and four great-grandchildren (Elizabeth & Abigail Moses and Cedar & Indio Soley).

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