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Imogene (Nottingham) Doll

Image of Imogene Doll
Birth Date: January 20, 1924
Death Date: September 29, 2001
Age at Death: 77
Sex: F
Cause of Death: Cancer

Marriages

Frank Austin Doll - April 10, 1948

at the ranch house at Avon, Colorado.

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: Sunset View Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Eagle, Colorado

Obituaries

Eagle Valley Enterprise page 19 - October 4, 2001

Imogene DOLL, "The Cake Lady," passed away on Sept. 29, in her home in Avon. Imogene DOLL was born to Myrtle and Emmett NOTTINGHAM, Jan. 20, 1924 at the ranch in Avon. She lived all of her early years in Avon on the ranch and went to Avon Elementary School and to Eagle County High School in Gypsum. Following school Imogene worked in the office of the New Jersey Zinc Company in Gilman. She and Frank DOLL were married in the ranch house at Avon on April 10, 1948.Her husband was called to active military service in 1951. She and the family followed Frank until he retired in 1968. They lived in places including Manhattan, Kansas; Stockton, California; Germany and Italy. After retiring from the military in 1968 they moved to Avon. Imogene's life expired in the family home.
She is survived by her husband, Frank, daughters Sharon of Avon, Kathy of Edwards and Patricia MEDEIROS of Wolcott Springs, as well as her sister Charlotte Oleson of Eagle and brother Bill NOTTINGHAM of Burns, and two grandsons, Matthew MEDEIROS of Wolcott and Levi MEDEIROS, Denver.
The services were held Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Sunset View Cemetery in Eagle.

Funeral bulletin - October 3, 2001

Imogene Nottingham DOLL
Born: January 20, 1924 - Avon, Colorado
Died: September 29,2001 - Avon, Colorado
Services: Wednesday, October 3, 2001, 1pm, 4-Eagle Ranch, Wolcott, Colorado
Officiating: Pastor Don SIMONTON
Music: Nancy SPIGENER, Burt FONTE
Eulogy: Matthew MEDEIROS
Interment: Eagle Cemetery [Family Only]

Vail Daily page 5A - October 2, 2001

AVON'S CAKE LADY, AN EAGLE VALLEY ORIGINAL, PASSES ON, by Cliff THOMPSON.
It's difficult to write a standard obituary about Imogene Nottingham DOLL because it doesn't paint a full enough picture. But it does provide a few details.
Services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the 4Eagle Ranch in Wolcott for Avon native Imogene Nottingham DOLL, who died Saturday at her home after battling ovarian cancer. She was 77.
She is survived by her husband, Frank; daughters Sharon of Avon, Kathy KRIEHN of Edwards and Patricia MEDEIROS of Wolcott Springs; her sister Charlotte OLESON of Eagle and brother Bill NOTTINGHAM of Burns; and two grandsons, Matthew MEDEIROS of Wolcott and Levi MEDEIROS of Denver.
She was best known throughout the county as Avon's cake lady because she baked custom wedding, birthday, special occasion and other cakes that were in such demand her schedule was always full. Yet she always seemed to have time for one more cake.
She was the daughter of Myrtle and Emmett Nottingham and raised on their ranch in what is now Avon. She attended school in Avon and Gypsum and later worked in the office of the New Jersey Zinc Mine in Gilman.
But that doesn't begin to explain who she was and what she meant to those who knew her. If you didn't know her, you missed a really good one.
"She could talk to anyone about anything," said son-in-law Louis MEDIEROS. "That was her personified. There wasn't anything you couldn't share with her."
But more than anything else, it was her smile that many remembered. "That was a the top of everyone's list," her son-in-law said.
She genuinely liked to meet people, and when you met her for the first time, you liked her.
"She didn't use fancy words or try to be someone she wasn't," said husband Frank. "You could sense her embarrassment when someone complimented her on a cake."
"There are many people who have friends that have lots of friends that really like them," said daughter Patti MEDIEROS. "With Imogene, people loved her."
Imogene and Frank met in high school, but he was four years older and they didn't connect. But in 1946, when he returned from the war, he visited a friend and noticed a picture of a pretty woman with auburn hair. It was Imogene.
He decided to ask her on a date, he couldn't use the telephone, because it rarely worked, said Frank, so he wrote her a letter.
"We've been together ever since," he said. "It's been a good life."
Frank said the things he remembers most about her are her dependability, generosity and steadfastness..
"She was always willing to do something for somebody. No task was too great. if somebody gave her a dollar, she'd give them $2 when she paid them back," he said.
They married in 1948 and spent their first summer in a one-room cow camp near Deep Creek, where Frank learned that she detested mice, and there were plenty of them in the cabin. As he recalled, it made for some interesting conversations. They had four children,one of whom died as a child from a congenital heart defect.
"The kids was where her life was," said Frank. "They always came first. She never gave up on them."
But she liked to collect things and had a large collection of iron trivets that were used to hold the old heaving solid irons used to iron clothing.
"If there was an antique shop within 20 miles of anywhere, we would go," he said.
She also collected German Hummel figurines and dozens of them grace her bookcases and shelves throughout their house in Avon.
She also had an artistic eye and liked to paint, but was so busy with her cakes that she just didn't have the time. And her cake baking always seemed to involve Frank, too.
"...she wasn't much of a construction engineer, so I'd end up helping her on some of the more complicated cakes," he said. She made cakes of people skiing, cakes that looked like tennis balls, cakes that looked like football fields and cakes that were works of art.
In 1970 she survived an automobile accident on icy roads that left her pinned beneath her vehicle in the Arkansas River in the middle of winter. That accident injured her knee and kept her from pursuing another passion--horseback riding. And in her final three years, when she endured chemotherapy, she did not complain, even when she lost her hair and endured the discomfort of it all.
"I'm sorry that it all had to end," said Frank. "It was difficult watching her get weaker day by day. But I was glad that I was able to help her and glad the girls were around to help." He looked away and finally continued, "It's been tough."
"At the end, there wasn't anything I could do to help her," said Frank. "She always said thank you."
She will be buried at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Sunset View Cemetery in Eagle.

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