Ball, Doris Althealee
Birth: Monday, January 24, 1938 in Monclo, West Virginia
Residence: Prince Frederick, Maryland
Death: Saturday, July 09, 2011 at the age of 73
Laid to Rest: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 in the Southern Memorial Gardens, Dunkirk, Maryland
Doris Althealee Ball, age 73, of Prince Frederick, MD passed away July 9, 2011 at the Burnett-Calvert Hospice House in Prince Frederick, MD.

Doris had suffered for several years with stage IV breast cancer. She was born January 24, 1938 in Monclo, WV to Samuel L. and Muriel (Littleton) Valandingham. She was raised in West Virginia and moved in 1960 to Washington, D.C. where she attended and graduated from the Ben Franklin Business College with an Associates Degree in accounting. She was employed as an accountant with the Government of the District of Columbia, retiring in 1976 due to disability brought on by the effects of post polio syndrome. Doris had lived with family in North Carolina and Indiana where she helped raise her son Dwain's children. She returned to Maryland in 1998 and lived in Lusby and later Prince Frederick. Doris was devoted to her religion and loved bible study. In her leisure time she was an avid reader, enjoyed cooking and watching cooking shows, and spending time with family and friends.

Doris was preceded in death by her parents, and is survived by two sons, Brian K. Ball and wife Vicki of Huntingtown, MD and David Dwain Ball and wife Cathy of Columbia City, Indiana; six siblings, Freida Baldwin of Johnson City, TN, Roger Valandingham and wife Claudette of Clinton, MD, Carol Ferko, also of Clinton, Richard Valandingham and wife Carol of Queens Creek, AZ, Pamela O'Dell and husband Jim of Ashburn, VA, and Dreama Kidwell and husband Wayne of Huntingtown. She is also survived by eleven grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Expressions of sympathy in Doris' name may be made to Calvert Hospice, P.O. Box 838, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 or online at www.calverthospice.org.

Arrangements provided by Rausch Funeral Home.

Visitation
July 12, 2011
2:00-4:00 & 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD

Funeral Service
July 13, 2011
11:00 A.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD

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