Doris Elizabeth Burrows King
February 27, 1916 – February
13, 2015
Doris
was born in Junction, TX to Emma Chenault Burrows and Jake Thomas Burrows on
February 27, 1916. When Doris was six
months old they moved to San Antonio, TX where she graduated from Brackenridge
HS in 1933 and continued her education earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Education
from University of San Antonio, now Trinity University.
Christmas night 1935 Doris ( known to many as Dody) met the love of her life, William Madison King, Jr and seven years later they were wed on Christmas afternoon, 1942. Bill King was a Lieutenant in the then Army Air Corps and thus began a wonderful military life of traveling and living many places in the world. During the next 31 years they lived in England, Alabama, Japan, Germany and various locations in Texas. Besides being actively involved with military wives organizations, she was foremost a loving wife and mother. Doris often taught in Department of Defense Elementary schools at many of the Air Force Bases where she lived.
In
1973 Bill and Dody retired to begin a very active life in New Braunfels, TX.
Doris was an active member and head of the Altar Guild, the Episcopal Church
Women, and Daughters of the King at St. John’s Episcopal Church for over 30
years. She was also very involved with The Daughters of the Nile, greatly
supporting The Shriners Hospitals for Children, Comal Garden Club, The
Republican Women, The Heritage Society and various other civic organizations in
New Braunfels. She and her beloved Bill
were married for 50 years. Bill passed
into eternal life on February 17, 1993.
In
2008 Doris moved to Colorado Springs and joined St. George’s Anglican
Church. She continued to live a happy
and productive life and especially enjoyed getting to know her great-grandson,
Christopher, who brought such joy and brightness into her life! He will miss his “Great-GrandDody” as will
the rest of her family, but we will never forget this great Texas lady who brought
love and joy to everyone she knew.
In
addition to her beloved husband and parents, Doris was preceded in death by her
sister Lila Ameta Burrows Lamon, and her brother Edgar Allen Burrows. She is
survived by her daughter Karen King (Austin, TX), daughter Susan (James)
Spencer (Colorado Springs, CO), granddaughter Stephanie (Stephen) Saunders
(Parker, CO), grandson Ryan Spencer (Brooklyn, NY), great-grandson Christopher
Saunders (Parker, Co), niece Emily Palmer (Austin, TX), and great nieces and
nephews.
Doris
left life on earth with the grace and the peace with which she lived. She will
be greatly missed by her family until we meet again.
Memorial
Service: 10:00 am, February 21, 2015 at St. George’s Anglican Church, Colorado
Springs, CO.
Inurnment:
11:00 am, March 6, 2015 at Guadalupe Valley Memorial Park, New Braunfels, TX.
Shriners Hospitals for Children, 2900 Rocky
Point, Tampa, FL 33607
www.shrinershospitalsforchildren.org
SUSAN KING SPENCER
555 Buckeye Drive
Colorado, Springs, CO 80919
