Doris Cassel Vibbert

Published 1:11 am Tuesday, June 17, 2014

August 17, 1929 – June 4, 2014

Doris Cassel Vibbert of Gateway passed away June 4, 2014 at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend from acute heart failure. She was 84.

Doris replanted her Hoosier roots in the Gateway valley in 1948, traveling from Indiana with her sister, Laura, and her family with every intention of returning to college at Indiana University. When she met Herb Vibbert, the plans were changed.

The couple married in New Pine Creek, Oregon on March 9, 1949. Doris and Herb moved into the apartment behind Noah Vibbert’s General Store and began their family, Beverly Kae (1951) and Marla Rae (1953).

Herb and Doris ran Priday Agate Beds for a few years. She went on to work at Roy and Lil’s Sporting Goods in town before being snagged by Oscar Lange to help run his sporting goods store for more than 25 years. She was well known for selling three generations of Madras White Buffaloes their first jock strap.

After Oscar sold the store, Doris worked at the golf shop at KahNeeTa. Before her retirement in 1999, golf pro Ed Hershey said “she was the best boss I ever had.”

The Queen of the Stink Eye enjoyed bowling, golf, bridge, cribbage, puzzles, tending to her cherished roses, Judge Judy and the Game Show Network.

Doris loved her two girls and passed on her sense of independence, grit, and small streaks of stubbornness.

Doris was preceded in death by her loving husband, Herb, in 2000, as well as brothers Norman and Bill Cassel, sisters Laura Stewart, Martha Gray and Dora Dobbels. Sister Betty Beaman survives in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Doris also is survived by daughters Beverly (Tim) Annala, Marla Rae (Jeff) Watson, and grandchildren Amy Annala (Keller Christensen) and Herbie (Dani) Annala. Numerous Vibbert, Cassel and Stewart nieces, nephews and the grands also survive.

A casual gathering of family and friends will be held at the Vibberts in Gateway on Saturday, June 14 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Gateway Fire Protection Association, 9108 NE Clemens Drive, Madras, 97741 or to the Jefferson County Historical Society, P.O. Box 647, Madras, 97741.

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