Arrangements by Preferred Cremation & Burial. Funeral Services held on February 2, 2023, at Bethel.
Doris June Bell was born on March 16, 1936, in Dallas, Texas to the union of Elzie Bell and Tessie Cola-Lorraine Friend-Brown.
Doris attended Memorial Jr. High and graduated from San Diego High School. Doris later went on to obtain her nursing degree at Maric College of San Diego in 1996 at the young and ambitious age of sixty.
It was in the Summer of 1954 that Doris joined Claudell Beaner, Sr. in matrimony. This union produced five children. Doris’s purpose was vast and she fulfilled it as her career ranged from a retail clerk at F.W. Woolworth & Co., switchboard operator for Geico and National Steele and Shipbuilding, and retired from In-Home Supportive Services, as a Certified Home Health Nurse for over twenty years.
Doris in her early years was far from traditional. She would wake up and if she wanted to go to Fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco, she would go. She exposed her children to field trips that would sometimes find them out of state without notice and on adventures rich in history. Doris loved music of all genres and encouraged her children to find their musical talent. When not on an adventure, they spent their weekends reading books. Doris loved her family, laughter, and food. Mother also represents the “last man standing” on both paternal and maternal sides of her family.
Most importantly, Doris loved the Lord and lived for Christ. She was baptized at an early age at Bethel Baptist Church on 29th and Clay Streets under the late Reverend Charles H. Hampton and remained a faithful and dedicated servant of Christ under Dr. John W. Ringgold until her passing.
On February 9, 2023, God answered mother’s call and brought Doris home. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother Verdell Bell; and sister Carlee J. Daniels; twin nephews Melvin and Delvin Daniels; sons Gregory Lavaughn Beaner, Claudell Beaner, Jr., and Elzester Rodney Beaner
Doris leaves to cherish her legacy her devoted daughters Dorinda Elaine Beaner and April Bathsheba Morgan; son-in-law Kerry Neville Morgan; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and her grand-doggies Serjio and Sammzin. Doris also leaves her sister’s three children; and a host of family and friends.
