Doris May Mills (née Nixon)

March 17, 1927 - August 15, 2024

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Service Details

Funeral Service: Livestreaming Available
1:00pm – Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Watson United Church,
Watson, Saskatchewan

Interment: 
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Bethany Cemetery
RM of Spalding, Saskatchewan

Memorial Donations:

Watson Trinity United Church
P.O. Box 624,
Watson, SK, S0K 4V0
Visit: Trinity United Church

Obituary

Doris May Mills (née Nixon) was born in Blanchard County, Ontario. She was the third child of a family of ten siblings. Doris attended country school until Grade 8. When the school was closed, she went out to work at local farms doing housework. She then went to London to work, where she met Hubert Mills. After the war ended, Hubert came to Ontario to find work and visit his sister, where Doris lived upstairs.. The couple married and worked in London for a time and then moved to Saskatchewan where they homesteaded on veterans’ land– 320 acres of bush- land. It was not easy in those years, but they had family and friends close by. Doris and Hubert were blessed with five children: three daughters: Donna Kerpan, Diane Dosselman, and Lynn Graf; two sons: Grant and Greg. Doris loved to dance, listen to music, and sing with the Watson Harmonizers. She also liked to play cards, do puzzles, and loved to garden. Another passion was to quilt, and she was part of the Watson Quilters Guild. Doris and Hubert built their house in Watson, and moved in in 1975, where they lived until she was widowed in 1977. She continued to live there until the age of 80, and then moved to Sunshine Manor, where she lived for 15 happy years. Doris loved to go for drives, especially when crops were coming up in the spring and during harvest in the fall. She especially loved to stop for a meal, her favorites were Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Chinese food. The most special times for Doris over all were the times she spent with her friends, her children, grandkids, and especially great grandkids. Due to declining health, she had to enter into long-term care at the Quill Plains Centennial Lodge in Watson,SK where she received the utmost care until she passed peacefully on August 15th, 2024. Doris is lovingly remembered and deeply missed by: her children, Donna Kerpan, Lynn (Mike) Graf, Greg (Norah); 16 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren;and3great-greatgrandchildren;daughter-in-law Georgette; brother, Ralph; and sister, Rhoda. Doris was predeceased by her: husband, Hurbert; son, Grant; daughter, Diane; sons-in-law: Bob and John; parents, Seymour and Violet; and seven siblings.

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