HELEN (DOCKERY) FOLEY

June 16, 2017

CARTHAGE- Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, at Daniel Funeral Home for Helen Verda (Dockery) Foley, 91, Carthage, who died Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at her home, following a short illness. Graveside services are scheduled at Glen Abbey Cemetery in Bonita, Calif.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include a son, Kenneth Doerr and wife Dee, Carthage; grandchildren, Kalyn Doerr, Travis Doerr, Gretchen Johnston and husband Stu, Dusty Doerr and Brandy Mae Doerr, Blake Broaddus and wife Jesika and Samantha Hare and great-grandchildren, Katie Selinski, Jake Johnston and Alex Johnston.

She was preceded in death by a son, Brandon Keith Doerr in 2002; five brothers, Cal, Stan, Howard, Loren and Lee Dockery and three sisters, Minnie Dockery, Reba Owen and Nadine Walters.

Mrs. Foley was born Jan. 30, 1926, in Irwin, to Zella Beecher and Edna Mae (Harmon) Dockery. She graduated high school in La Jolla, Calif., and lived most of her life in the San Diego, Calif. area, until moving to live with her son five years ago. She was an avid golfer and her dog Micky 2 was the love of her life.

She married Henry Kenneth Doerr in 1945 and he died in 1979. She then married John Thomas Foley and he died in November of 2002.