In loving memory of Joyce Mary Dobner who sadly passed away on 31st March 2024.
Joyce was born on 1st January 1932 in Brunel Road Rotherhithe . Her parents Della and Alfred bore 11 children, she moved to 5 Emba Street Bermondsey when she was 5 years old.
She left school at 14 and started work in the box making factory with her sisters. She worked at various Bermondsey factories over the years.
On 1st August 1953 she married William Dobner (Bill) and they continued to live at 5 Emba Street.
Their first child, Carol was born May 1957 followed by Diane in April 1961.
She started working as a school cleaner at Childeric Primary School and then went to work at Riverside Primary school, the same school she had attended as a child, where she continued working for 27 years until retiring in 1991.
Joyce and Bill moved to Morriss House in 1978.
They enjoyed nights out in their local pub the Old Justice ‘The J’ , all the Bishop family would meet there at weekends and bank holiday’s, Joyce loved to sing on the mic accompanied by the piano, she had a repertoire of songs including, Second hand Rose, Who’s sorry now and Crazy, her favourite singer was Shirley Bassey.
They also went to social clubs and in later years The British Legion. They were joined by her brother Bill and his wife Anne, with whom they spent many happy holidays with, Joyce and Anne became great friends and went Bingo every Thursday, she also loved a bet on the horses.
In the early days the Bishop family would holiday together meeting at Coronation camp Hayling Island, leaving many great memories for everyone. Joyce and Bill bought a chalet at Leysdown, Joyce took great pride in making the chalet special and it provided many a happy holidays and weekends away with Carol and Diane and her son in laws Brian and Keith and the grandchildren, but in 1987 they lost it to the great storm.
She became a grandmother in 1978 to Lee followed in later years by Joanna, Dean and Michelle and enjoyed days out and playing games with them. She loved spending Christmases with them and there was always bingo on Christmas night.
Joyce was fortunate to see all her 4 grandchildren marry and was proud to become a great grandmother to Claudia, Billy, Olivia, Corey, Tommy and Bella.
Bill sadly passed away in 2016 and life changed completely for Joyce without him.
Joyce suffered with arthritis for many years which made it hard for her to go out as much as she would have liked. She was diagnosed with COPD and by 2021, she was on oxygen permanently. She enjoyed monthly visits from her nieces, and loved seeing her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Carers came into her 4 times a day, Mo was her regular carer for more than 5 years and she would have a laugh with her, she loved Donna coming at night who also shared her love of Bermondsey.
She developed pneumonia in March and spent 2 weeks in hospital, she came out but it had caused failure to other parts of her body and she sadly passed away on Easter Sunday.
Joyce was much loved by all of her family and everyone she knew, she was kind and generous and loved her family very much, she will be sadly missed 💕
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