Doris Ivey

Longtime Cupertino resident, poet, author, dollmaker and mother, Doris Ivey passed away peacefully in her home, September 19. She is survived by four children, Jeff Ivey, Judy Dawson and Gail Ivey, of Cupertino, and Kevin Ivey of Copperas Cove, TX, a sister, Lola Allan, of Clovis, CA, and four grandchildren, Emily Dawson, Casey Dawson, Chiae Ivey, and Youngjae Ivey. Services will be held at Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 5825 Bollinger Rd. in Cupertino on September 29 at 11:00 am, interment at Los Gatos Memorial Park, 2255 Los Gatos Almaden Rd, San Jose, CA 95124 immediately following the service. A native of Kerman, CA, and the middle child of seven children, Doris followed her heart to San Francisco in 1945 and in 1949 met Ted, the love of her life, while working at Charles Brown's Hardware store. They settled in Palo Alto while Ted worked at Hiller Aircraft Company, and began their family. In 1955, with two small children, they moved into the home in Cupertino that they would share with each other for the rest of their lives. After the younger two children were school age, Doris began working part time at Doyle Elementary school as Assistant Librarian and eventually became a Teacher's Aide. She retired in 1985, having been a favorite of many local school children. In retirement, Doris enjoyed making dolls. She made over 150 dolls, most of which she sold or gave to family members as gifts. She was even commissioned by the San Jose Police Department to create dolls to use as therapy for abused children. In her late 70s, Doris began to write. She had always enjoyed writing songs and poetry her entire life, but she had stories inside of her wanting to come out. She received a Brother word processor as a gift and wrote a story. Soon after, she received her first computer and began to write a novel that was ten years in the making. In her early 90s, she published her first book, called Poems From My Old Diary, followed by a children's book, Slim and Jim. At the age of 92, her novel, No Ordinary Woman, was published. Her final publication in 2016 turned out to be her very first story, written in the early 1990s, and called Terror on the Third Floor. Doris was preceded in death by her devoted husband, Ted, who passed away in 2013. She is also reunited in spirit with brothers, Marshall Cull, Raleigh Cull, Walter Cull and Harold Cull, and her sister, Ella Mae Workmon. She will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her.