Doris Gambonini, a homemaker with a a constant smile and a stubborn, can-do attitude, passed away on Sept. 6 at 80 years old.
Doris and her husband, Alvin, lived on a ranch near Marshall that they often opened up to friends and locals: they regularly welcomed a hunting club and a motorcycle club and held numerous barn dances over the years. But there was one neighbor—the Church of Synanon, the infamous rehabilitation center turned cult—that…