Doris Irene Rutherford

Doris Irene Rutherford, 97, passed away peacefully in her sleep Wednesday, August, 10, 2022, at Taylor House in Des Moines. The eldest of five children to Clyde and Orona Hammond Galloway, Doris was born at home in Conrad, Iowa on May 16, 1925. She graduated from Lamoille High School where she participated in band, basketball, and the high school plays. After graduation, she went to work at the Fisher Governor Company in Marshalltown. A lover of dance, she met her future husband, Kenneth Rutherford, at the Forest Park Ballroom in Marshalltown. They were united in marriage March 6, 1946, and were blessed with four children: Jerry (Sherrie) Rutherford, Danny Rutherford, Virginia McCune, and Randy Rutherford. Additionally, she has 11 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. She worked with her husband on the farm in the Gilman-Newburg area, and in 1983, she moved to Denver where she worked as a home health aide and at an adult care center. After 22 years in Denver, she returned to Nevada, Iowa, in 2005. Along with her love of dancing she had many other interests: she was the area hairdresser, always cutting and perming someone’s hair, she loved to sew and often submitted her sewing projects to the Iowa State Fair, she was a card shark playing Hand and Foot, Canasta, and Five Hundred, and she was also always working on a jigsaw puzzle. One of her puzzles was of the Statue of Liberty, which was framed and displayed at the Senior Center in Nevada. And most importantly, never to be forgotten, was her love of dressing to the nines and wearing her high heel shoes, which she did to the very end. Preceding her in death were her husband, both parents, two sisters: Julia Bachel and Vieve Mohr, one brother Phillip Galloway, one son Danny Rutherford, and one great-granddaughter Ruby Strum. She is survived by one brother Rex (Mae) Galloway of Missouri, and her loving family and extended family who will miss her smile, her spunk, and her love of life.