Doris Jean Larson

Doris Jean Larson, 86 years of age, passed peacefully at home with her daughter Jeannine by her side on Monday, February 24th. In the days before her passing, she was surrounded by her loving family. Doris was born in Chicago Illinois, the daughter of Melvin and Josephine Nelson. She came to Wisconsin in 1937 to a wilderness homestead in the town of Shanagolden. She grew up in the wild with her constant companion, a wolf named Duke. She attended 8 years in a two-room schoolhouse in Shanagolden. She graduated from Glidden High in 1951. As a teen, she experienced some note as a yodeler and a country singer. Through the years, she sang at weddings and other occasions. While working at the Bobynn Resort on Lake Nemakogen, she met the love of her life, Corporal Bob Larson from Grand View Wisconsin who just returned from a tour in Okinawa. They were married May 9th, 1953 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Glidden. After living in Chicago they returned to Glidden in 1961 where they settled and built their home. She became very involved in the community as a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Mission Circle, served as Sunday school teacher, and youth counselor working to send young people to youth conventions in San Antonio, TX, Washington D.C. and Camp Luther. Through the VFW, she ran the Voice of Democracy contest and with her husband Bob initiated the Loyalty Day Program. She held many youth dances and parties. With the sponsorship of the PTO and the help of volunteer busses and drivers she bused 50-60 students a week to the Park Falls swimming pool for several years. Avid sportsmen, she and Bob hunted deer together for more than 50 years. Followed the Green Bay Packers, attended most high school basketball and city team baseball games. Doris worked for Helene Curtiss in Chicago, planted trees for the forestry, did the Census four times, was a stylist for Beeline Fashions, sold Stanley products, cut boughs and ran a family wreath business. After Bob retired from Ashland County Highway Department, they worked for and helped manage Snyder’s Greenhouse. They bought a pop-up camper off the shopping show and put in several years country music festivaling. After Bob passed away in 2008, Doris remained a resident at Tyler Courts. With nurturing support from her best friend, Carol Schoch and husband Dave she lived a quiet life reading books and feeding her beloved deer (assisted by John). She was survived by her siblings Melvin Jr. Nelson (Nancy), Melvina Scherwinski, Louise Jobin (Ed), and Sandy McCorison (Lyle); children Bob Larson Jr. Tom Larson (Sheri), James, and Jeannine Holesovsky (Todd); grandchildren Jennifer Bush (Kristopher), Tomasina Larson, Jessie Larson (Shaina), and Joseph Holesovsky; great grandchildren Jasmine, Madison , Lily, Olivia, Wyatt, Carter, and Charlie; 12 step grandchildren, 20 step great grandchildren, and by Ron, Jack, Olvina (Al), Svenska daughter, Annalena, exchange student who came in 1982. She was preceded in death by her parents Melvin and Josephine Nelson, sisters Lois and Marcella, brother in law Jerry Scherwinski, and by her loving husband Bob Larson. Memorial services will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church in Glidden on Saturday July 25, 2020 at 10:30am.

Doris Jean Larson

November 9, 1933 - February 24, 2020