Doris Irene Ford, 81, active volunteer

Doris Irene Ford of 42 Old North Main Street, Walpole, N.H., a former Ridgefielder who had been an active volunteer, died May 5 at the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene on Saturday morning after a sudden illness. She was 81 years old.
Mrs. Ford was born in Liverpool, England on August 10, 1919, the daughter of Henry J. and Mae E. (Sproul) Burrows.
She grew up and attended schools in New York, and was a graduate of Walton High School in the Bronx. She has been a resident of Walpole since 1989, having moved there from Ridgefield.
She was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Walpole, a member of the Walpole Seniors and she was a volunteer at the Cheshire County Maplewood Nursing Home in Westmoreland, N.H. For the past several years she was the official greeter of guests of the Josiah Bellows House Bed and Breakfast in Walpole.
“She loved talking on the telephone to her family and friends and enjoyed watching television,” her family said. “She also enjoyed eating out and visiting with her family and friends.”
She was the widow of Robert L. Ford who died in 1963.
She is survived by her daughter Lois J. Ford and son-in-law Louis F. Ciercielli of Walpole, N.H.; a brother, John Burrows of Ransomville, N.Y. and a sister, Edna Archer of West Thompson; four nieces, a nephew, and several great-nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her oldest brother Henry Burrows in 1964.
Services were in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Elm Street, Walpole, on Wednesday. Burial was in the Walpole Village Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made in her name to St. John’s Episcopal Church, c/o the Rev. Robert Freeman, Rector, Elm Street, Walpole, NH 03608 or to the Monandock Humane Society, P.O. Box 678, West Swanzey, N.H. 03469.
The Foley Funeral Home in Keene was in charge of arrangements.