Doris Corley Stanard

Published 4:47 pm Thursday, January 27, 2011

Doris Corley Stanard, 92,died at the Bryan Whitfield Hospital in Demopolis on January 26, 2011. Born in Nicholsville, AL on July 20, 1918 to William Wesley Corley and Lillian Ingram Corley, one of seven brothers and sisters. Mrs Stanard was raised in Sweetwater and graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1937. She graduated from Hillman Nursing School in Birmingham and was a Registered Nurse for over forty years. She was selected Nurse of the year in 1968. Mrs. Stanard has resided at the Marengo County Nursing Home in Linden since 1999.

She was preceded in death by her husband of twenty-five years, Harris P. Stanard of Mobile, AL and daughter, Dorothy Anne Stanard.

Mrs. Stanard is survived by her son, Wesley Edmund Stanard of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL and her grandson, Raymond Harris Stanard of Godfrey, IL. Services will be held Saturday, January 29, 2011, 11:00 a.m. at Fair Haven Baptist Church of Demopolis. Graveside services will follow at New Live Oak Cemetery in Selma directed by Kirk Funeral Homes of Demopolis.

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