Elaine Ford Doerr

Published 6:00 am Monday, January 19, 2004

Services for Elaine Ford Doerr of Mobile, Ala., formerly ofBrookhaven, are 2 p.m., Monday, Jan. 19, at Brookhaven Funeral HomeChapel with burial in Rosehill Cemetery.

Visitation is Monday from noon until 2 p.m., at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Doerr, 83, died Jan. 17, 2004, at Mobile Infirmary inMobile, Ala. She was born in New Orleans, La., on March 13, 1920,to William Kendrick Ford and Louise Sturm Ford.

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She was a homemaker and co-founder and previous co-owner ofMillane’s Gift Shop in Brookhaven. She was a member of First UnitedMethodist Church in Brookhaven.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Rowland A.Doerr; and her brother, Burl W. Ford.

Survivors are her daughter, Judy Doerr Carter of Mobile, Ala.;her son, Richard Rowland Doerr of Jackson; her sisters, EdithGautreaux, and Antianette Johnson of Lofaltuf, Calif.; and hergrandchildren, Kevin Doerr of Shreveport, La., Ryan and wifeTiffany Doerr of Madison, Stacy and husband Andy Carmel of SanDiego, Calif., and David Lipscomb of Hattiesburg.