Doris Ophelia Dunigan

Viewing:Thursday March 8, 2018 from 4-7 p.m.
McKay's Family Aftercare
2001 3rd. Street #A
Riverside, CA 92518

Funeral: Friday March 9, 2018 11:00 a.m.
New Beginnings Christian Fellowship
5970 Limonite Ave
Riverside, CA 92509

Cemetery: Monday March 12, 2018 at 9:30 a.m.
Riverside National Cemetery
22495 Van Buren Blvd
Riverside, CA 92509

OBITUARY:

On February 6, 1946 Doris Ophelia (Mathis) Dunigan was born to her parents Willie P. Mathis Sr. and Lizzie Mae Mathis in Blytheville, Arkansas. In 1961 the Mathis family moved to Groveland, Florida where Doris graduated from Lincoln Park High School in Clermont, Florida. After graduating from high school Doris moved to California where she met and married Willie C. Dunigan, her husband of 47 years.

Doris was raised as a Christian, and she was a devoted member of the New Beginnings Christian Fellowship Church in Riverside, California, having served as a Deaconess and a Sunday school teacher. Doris was a longstanding and dedicated employee of the Eden Lutheran Preschool in Riverside, California, where she worked hard to instill a love of learning, strong morals, and a spirit of motivation and determination in her students.

Doris is preceded in death by her parents, Willie P. Mathis Sr. and Lizzie Mae Mathis; her sister Joyce Olivia Link, and her brother Opree O'Dell Mathis. Doris is survived by her husband Willie C. Dunigan, Crystal Wiley, Tashara Bernard, Adrianna Wiley and Lorena Wiley; her brother Willie Paul Mathis Jr. of Memphis, Tennessee; her sisters Ethel Jewel Adams of Nashville, Tennessee; Wilma Kay McKay of Tallahassee, Florida; Victoria Margaret Wiley of Memphis, Tennessee and Mary Elizabeth Bailey of Leesburg, Florida. Doris is also survived by a host of cousins, nieces and nephews, and other loving relatives and friends.