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DORIS MILLER

Born: Oct 23, 1915

Date of Passing: Jul 09, 2015

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DORIS MILLER (nee PLATT) October 23, 1915 - July 9, 2015 Our dear Aunty Sis quickly slipped away from all of us who loved her on July 9, 2015 at the respectable age of 99.75 years of age. Because of the exceptional love and care of the Nurses and Aides at Parkview Place, she had defied death on several occasions and we are eternally thankful to them as this allowed us all the gift of more time with her. Her parents - Arthur and Julia, siblings - Robert (Bob and Rose), William (Bill and Betty), Oliver (Bud and Ruby) and Marjorie, and husband George Miller, all predeceased her - most likely due to her iron will to live to be 100. She was born Doris Platt, and grew up in North Kildonan, Winnipeg. She spent many years working at Ogilvie's. She was a fisher, a gardener, a bird lover and an avid baseball player - able to "crank-it-out-there" with the best of them! She loved adventures. Most of all, she enjoyed her wee little house. With no children of her own, Aunty Sis was loved to pieces by her nieces and nephews: Lucy Platt, Margaret Engstrom, Harold (Bud and Elaine) Platt, Laurie (and Robert) Heide, Susan Doan, Arthur (and Kathy) Platt, Esther (and Len) Ellchuk, Ruth (and Wayne) Klassen through to the generations of her great-great-nieces and nephews - it's a long list... No matter where she was, she had the ability to draw people to her with a smile or a simple greeting and easily adopted' our friends and her caregivers as her family. We all felt more special by knowing her - she was the bragging rights of our family. We miss this tiny woman with indomitable spirit, quirks with a quick retort and ready smile - liable to call you an ass, donkey or sausage! A service will be held at 1:30 p.m. August 14, 2015 at Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St., Winnipeg. A private interment will follow at Rockwood Cemetery, Stonewall MB. Donations in lieu of flowers will be gratefully accepted, in memory of Doris, to Patient Care', Parkview Place, 440 Edmonton St., Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2M4. MacKenzie Funeral Home Stonewall 204-467-2525 mackhome@mts.net

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Aug 08, 2015

Condolences & Memories (1 entries)

  • I lived across the back lane from auntie Doris most of my life. When Doris and I were a lot younger, and she knew how bad my life was, she would spend time with me outside in her yard. Uncle George would walk off to the legion, or maybe drive there with my dad, and Doris and I would play and make mud pies, feed the birds, have water in tea cups. As I grew older and married, she really did not like my husband and was happy that I divorced him. She loved my husband of now 26 years and was excited to see me get married. She made us go to her little house to show her our wedding duds and gave us her approval. We used to take her to Safeway where she did her shopping and bought the biggest straightest bananas always. Some of them were half her size. When she got sick we looked after her house, her inside plants, her garden; although, we could not do as well as her, but it lived. We would do anything for Doris and visited her at her house after we moved out of the area. We all met at a restaurant for her 80th birthday and she was just concerned that everyone else was having a good time. She was like that, always thinking about everyone else. Doris will always be auntie Doris, she was to me, my brothers, my children. She got me and my brothers in trouble sometimes because we would do stupid things and she would tell our parents, like the day my younger brother and I locked out older brother out of the house and he broke the window. We had a story all worked out to tell our parents, but Doris got there first and there we stood in front of our parents lying and they already knew the truth. I loved auntie Doris. My husband Brian and me will always remember her with a smile and a few giggles and a great deal of love. Neighbors were not just neighbors, they were part of the family. I will miss `Doris forever. Rest in peace my little dove. Brian and I have missed you, will always miss you. Our sincere sadness and heartfelt wishes go out to the family on this the saddest of days. - Posted by: Julia and Brian Cummins (Long time neighbors and "part of the Auntie Doris family") on: Aug 14, 2015

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