Doris Alice Burns (26 Jan 1927 - 6 Sep 2017)

In loving memory of Doris Alice Burns (nee Guy) who sadly passed away on 6th September 2017. Doris was the fourth of five children to Henry and Winifred Guy in 1927 Liverpool. Charles Lindbergh was yet to fly the Atlantic and Al Jolson to appear in the first 'Talkie' movie. She saw many changes and outlived all her siblings, Ronnie, Eric, Marjorie, Brenda by a wide margin. She had many interesting tales of Wartime Liverpool and she met Stan as a 'teenager' at the Mitchell Memorial Hall part of the Liverpool City Mission. They married there in 1949. Their first child, Brian, was born in March 1950. Evidently it was a somewhat traumatic birth; Doris not was allowed to see her child for the first three days. Nevertheless they went on to have three daughters; Linda, Gaynor and Karen who were to form a very happy close knit family. Her eldest brother, Ronnie, who was profoundly deaf, left the family at an early stage to be raised by the Deaf Society Residential School. Eric was a highly skilled tool maker and Marjorie her elder sister and close friend lived locally. The youngest sibling, Brenda, was vivacious and socially successful member of Wirral Society before her untimely death at age 44yrs. Doris's remaining siblings died in their 60’s Doris’s most endearing and enduring friend was her sister-in-law Jean Burns until her early death some 42 years ago. Although it wasn't unexpected, Doris' daughter, Karen, had been suffering from MS since age 14; the death of Karen at age 50 was the cause of immeasurable grief to Stan and Doris. Doris never got over the loss of her close friends and relatives and to the end recalled various fond memories of them all.
Throughout these early happy and sad days Doris stayed in what was her deceased parents’ house 5 Porchester Road, part of the infamous Norris Green estate. The bulk of this housing stock was demolished in the 90's to make way, eventually, for an extremely attractive and imaginative estate. Sadly the estate suffered badly from the near feral nature of criminal elements of some of the community there. Thankfully, Doris was not to experience this as in 1992 she moved with Stan to their present bungalow in Metheringham, 10 miles south of Lincoln. She was very proud of both her bungalow and Lincoln itself for the last 25yrs of her life. Whilst Stan enjoyed venturing in to bell ringing in the local churches, Doris went to art classes. Metheringham has been both fortunate and kind for Doris and Stan. When Stan died in 2010 her world fell apart and her health deteriorated but not before she was befriended by Maureen the local taxi lady who was to be a focal point in her life. Maureen provided much more than a taxi service and Doris valued her support and friendship right up until the end. The end, when it came, was in the invaluable 'The Cottage' care home. 'The Cottage' staff were extremely compassionate and looked after Doris in extremely challenging conditions.
And so ends the story of the last of the Guy family, Doris Alice Burns (nee Guy)

We have taken the donations into the funeral home, there was a total of £174.60 and would just like to say thank you for this.