Doris Ruth Walling

1921 - 2012

Doris Ruth Walling, 90, passed away Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. Service: Mass of Christian Burial at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Patrick Cathedral. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Visitation: 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home with a rosary beginning at 7 p.m. Doris Ruth Walling was born Oct. 10, 1921, in North Vassalboro, Maine, to the late Joseph H. and Ruth M. Couture. She was a graduate of Waterville High School and Thomas Business College. She married the late John Clyde Walling on March 30, 1952. She was a clerk for the federal government until her retirement in 1989. Survivors: Daughter, Cynthia Mahoney and husband, Mike; and sisters and brothers, Hilda Nicolosi, Clare Grietzer, Paula Burke, Marguerite Orosz, Joan Robie, Horatio Couture and Peter Couture.