Doris Scheil
July 12, 1935 - October 24, 2022
Obituary
Doris M. Scheil, 87, Platteville, died on Monday, October 24 at Edenbrook in Platteville, Wisconsin. Funeral services will be at 11:00 A.M. Friday, October 28, 2022 at First English Lutheran Church, Platteville. Rev. Brenda Crossfield will officiate. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery, Platteville. Friends may call from 10:00 A.M. until the time of the service at the church. The Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville, is serving the family. Online condolences can be made at www.melbyfh.com.
Doris Marie (Rouse) Scheil was born on July 12, 1935 in Hazel Green, Wisconsin, the daughter of Earl and Zelda (Robbins) Rouse. She met the love of her life when Willard and his family moved across the street from her parent's home in Platteville. In November of 1955, Doris lived with her future in-laws in Milwaukee, WI while Willard attended the Great Lakes Naval Training Center for basics. While living in Milwaukee, she worked at the John Oster Manufacturing Plant. They were married on December 23, 1955, at the First English Lutheran Church in Platteville, Wisconsin. Willard's first duty station was in Norfolk, Virginia. She joined him in Norfolk at a later date and they lived in upstairs, off base flat while Willard was in training and received his ship assignment. In 1957 while expecting their first child, Doris moved back to Platteville to live with her parents while Willard was out at sea. After his military discharge they made their home in Platteville.
Doris worked part time in food service at the Platteville Hospital cafeteria, Glenview Commons at UW-Platteville, and Dick's Supermarket Bakery.
Her favorite pastime was cruising around with Willard in his Model A roadster and attending car shows. With family friends they often played what they called “car hide and seek”, or playing a good game of Euchre. They took annual trips every summer to visit family members in Milwaukee, and Minnesota. Doris was instrumental in planning the annual Robbins-Pratt family reunion every year. She enjoyed spending time on her patio watching the hummingbirds and going with Willard for ice cream or root beer.
She adored visits from her two granddaughters and two great grandchildren. She became known as “Grandma Kit Kat” by her great grandchildren as she always gave them Kit Kat candy bars when they came to visit.
She is survived by one daughter, Kristal (Garry) Prohaska, Platteville: two granddaughters, Falynn (Jake) Mittag, Madison, WI, and Hailey Prohaska, Janesville, WI.; great-grandchildren, Macy Mittag and Jack Mittag, Madison, WI.; brother, Robert (Victoria) Rouse, Silver Lakes, California; sister, Marjorie Brugger, Coweta, Oklahoma; sisters-in-law, Christine Scheil, Milwaukee, WI, Karen (Merlin) Rouse, Vining, Iowa; and five nieces and seven nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, two brothers-in-law, and one sister-in-law.