How to write a fitting eulogy to a loved one

● A good starting place is to think about what you would say if you could only share three

MOTHER-OF-TWO Doris Morton has died aged 78, leaving a husband, son, daughter and granddaughter. She also leaves her four sisters.

Born in Glasgow, Doris – also known as Dodi and Dori – was raised by her Granny Dixon, whose husband was a caretaker at the Jewish Institute, in South Portland Street, which organised dances, debates, outings and amateur dramatics at that time.

“Mum would run about playing, singing and dancing on the stage, when no-one was about,” says daughter Lynn.

After attending Abbotsford Primary School and Bellahouston Academy, where she excelled at secretarial studies, Doris left school at 15 and got a job as a typist at chain-makers Wheway Watson in Govan, and then in Hillington where she made a number of good friends, whom she kept in touch with over the years.

In 1965, she met her husbandto-be George, who worked at John

Brown Engineering, at Glasgow’s famous Locarno Ballroom. “Dad asked mum to dance, twirled her round again and again – and then did the same again the following week,” says Lynn.

“And that was it – they knew they were meant for each other.”

Eighteen months later, in February 1967, the lovebirds tied the knot, set up home in Corkerhill before moving to Clydebank and went on to have two children – mother-ofone Lynn and Iain. The couple would be married for 53 years.

“Mum was a wonderfully caring woman and an inspiration to us all,” says Lynn who also remembers going on many a happy family holiday as a child to Blackpool, London and other parts of the British Isles. “She also travelled to Denmark with my brother to visit her beloved Uncle Jim,” says Lynn.

However, after going to Lloret de Mar in Spain as a young woman and realising that she didn’t like flying, Doris much preferred travelling by coach, “but still got to see a lot of places she had always dreamt of visiting”, says Lynn.

In later years, Doris, who carried on working part-time in the servicing department of a school and library book supplier after getting married, looked after her Granny Dixon until she passed away. She was also a trade union