Doris H. Hooker, Captain, USN Retired, passed away on February 4, 2013, at Hospice House in Callaway, MD. Born September 4, 1925 in St. Johnsbury, VT, she was the youngest daughter born to the late Elmer and Vera Hooker.

Doris graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1943; and, in 1947, she graduated from the Auburn School of Nursing in Cambridge, MA. She entered the Indian Service of the federal government where she lived and worked on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Rolla, ND. In 1951, she enlisted in the United States Navy. During her career with the Navy, Doris was stationed at Newport, RI, Key West, FL, Bethesda, MD, Philadelphia, PA, Argentina, Newfoundland, Portsmouth, NH, 29 Palms, CA, Bremerton, WA, Guam, and Camp Lejeune, NC. Her final duty station was at Patuxent River Naval Station in Maryland where Doris retired as Director of Nursing Services.

Upon retirement, Doris remained in the "Pax River" area surrounded by her dear friends whom she shared food and family. During her naval career and her retirement, Doris always found time to be with the families of her two sisters, Margaret Kingman and Lucille Paterson. She loved time at the beach in Delaware or at a Washington Redskins football game with the Kingman's. She also loved spending time in Vermont at the Paterson family cottage on Woodbury Pond where she would fish, water ski, watch the loons and feed the chickadees. She especially enjoyed sitting on the "lido deck" with a "toddy" and swapping sea stories with her Vermont friends.

Although Doris stayed in Maryland after her retirement, she was a Vermonter at heart; and had made arrangement to be buried at the Vermont Veteran's Memorial Cemetery in Randolph Center, VA. Over the years, Doris remained a friend of the South Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury; and, she was a regular attendee at Christmas time in the Barre Congregational Church.

Doris is survived by her nephew, Edward Kingman (Betsy) of Darnestown, MD; her niece, Nancy Kingman Dickey of Tampa, FL; her nephew, William Paterson of Castleton, VT; her niece, Joanne Paterson Rose (Wendell) of Barre, VT; and seven grandnephews and grandnieces.

She is preceded in death by her sisters, Margaret Kingman and her husband, Edward, and Lucille Paterson and her husband, Arthur.

Family will receive friends for Doris' Celebration of Life on Friday, February 15, 2013 from 10 AM to 12 PM at Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., 22955 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. Interment will be held at Vermont Veteran's Memorial Cemetery in Randolph Center, VT at a later date.

Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD.