Doratha Caroline  (Lindberg) Hooton, also  known as Carol Hooton, 81,  died June 16th in Salem,  Oregon at the Vintage Care  Center. Dora was born to  Edward Adolph Lindberg  and Syneva Rachel  (Sorensen) Lindberg on  February 8, 1928 at her  uncle’s sheep ranch on  McKenzie Road north of  Port Orford, Oregon.  Dora graduated from Port  Orford High School in 1945,  finishing high school in  three years. She enlisted in  the Cadet Nurse Corps and  took her nurse’s training at  Virginia Mason Hospital,  with course work at the  University of Washington in  Seattle. After WWII she did  some nursing in Port Orford  and at the Gold Beach hospital.  She attended Northwest  Christian College in Eugene  from 1947 to 1948 where  she met her husband to be,  Kenneth Hooton.

They were  married June 25, 1948 in  Coquille making their first  home in Eugene while  beginning their second year  in Bible college. Two  daughters were born to them  in Eugene, with one surviving.  She attended four other  colleges before she graduated  from Oregon College of  Education, Monmouth,  Oregon in 1964 with a  Bachelor of Science degree.  Three other children were  born into the family before  she began her teaching  career.  At some point Dora began  using the name Carol by  which many friends and coworkers  knew her. She was  a busy pastor’s wife working  along side her husband  in a number of places. At  her husband’s first pastorate  in Falls City, Oregon she  was the church pianist.  Carol began her teaching  career at the Chemawa  Indian School in Keizer,  Oregon then taught English  and Social Studies at Waldo  Junior high School and also  at various other schools.  Carol earned advanced certification  for Special  Education.

The last nine  years of Carol’s teaching  career was as the Special  Education Teacher in the  Camas Valley School  District.  Doratha (Carol) is survived  by daughter Judith  Bartel and husband, Dan;  son David Hooton and wife,  Corinn, of Salem, Oregon;  daughter, Susan Ellis and  husband, James of Albany,  Oregon; daughter, Linda  Heath and husband, Jerry of  Renton, Washington. There  are 11 grandchildren and 5  great-grandchildren. She is  also survived by her brother,  James Lindberg of Stanfield,  Oregon; sister Lucille  Douglas of Port Orford,  Oregon and sister Rachel  Leopold of Seattle,  Washington along with  numerous nieces and  nephews.  She was preceded in death  by her parents, two sisters  Marie Barrington and Helen  Richmond; two brothers  Edward Lindberg and Bill  Lindberg along with infant  daughter, Janet