Doris Gall

passed away on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at Island Health and Rehabilitation on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She was 96 years of age. Born September 16, 1919 in Tuscarawas, Ohio to Mancel F. and Helen G. (Kopp) Johnson. Graduated from Tuscarawas High School and Ohio University with high honors. Taught school in Ohio. Also worked at Wright Field, Dayton, OH, during World War II. Married Walter Gall in 1948. They met when he took her for her first airplane ride during Air Education Week at Ohio University in 1947.In 1950 the couple spent 9 weeks as National Forest Fire lookouts in Idaho and learned to love the Northwest. After living in other states, where she was a Girl Scout leader and active in other volunteer organizations, they moved to Bainbridge Island, WA in 1972.Doris is survived by her daughter Cheryl of Shoshone, ID and her son, Barry and his family of Snohomish, WA. She is also survived by her brother Keith Johnson of New Philadelphia Ohio. She is preceded in death by her parents, Mancel and Helen Johnson, her brother Leslie Johnson of New Philadelphia Ohio, brother William Johnson of Bradenton, FL and sister Caroline Sartin of Kittering Ohio. Arrangements are pending through Cook Family Funeral Home.