Dorene Adelle Nelson Lamprecht

She will be missed by her daughters; Devona (Billy) Pierce, Julie (John) Waldron and her two grandchildren Grant and Grace Waldron. She is survived by two sisters, Selma Zaback and Jeanette Herman and numerous nieces and nephews.

Dorene was born in Towner North Dakota, December 23 1928. She was the youngest of identical twins; number 11 of 13 siblings born to Olaf Nelson and Sena Nelson.

A 1947 graduate of Minot High School continuing her education at business school acquiring secretarial skills as well as bookkeeping. 

After graduation Dorene moved to Portland where her sister Elnora lived, and found employment in the accounting department of an insurance agency. In 1954, Dorene, her twin Doris and good friend Helen embarked on an adventurous cross-country road trip pulling a small trailer. This was newsworthy enough to make the Washington DC paper with the headline; 3 Portland girls visiting Capitol on long vacation. It further describes ”The three blondes, all well-tanned, blew into Washington after visiting the Great Smokey Mountains, and Shenandoah national parks in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, on their trip northward from Miami, FLA”. 

Dorene moved to San Francisco where she once again found employment with an insurance company. It was here that she met her future husband, Norman Henry Lamprecht. They were married in San Francisco on March 1, 1958. 

Dorene and Norman settled in Redwood City where they raised their two daughters. She enjoyed volunteering for the Farm Hills women’s group, PTA, Redeemer Lutheran church and the Filoli Historic House and Garden. Dorene enjoyed traveling the world, was an accomplished seamstress as well as a good and adventurous cook. She will be remembered as having a strong, independent, feisty personality. 

A family celebration of life will be held in Monterey California (the place of their honeymoon) with the scattering of Dorene and Norman’s ashes in the Pacific Ocean.