Doris Irene Taylor (1901 - 1968)

Born 25 Jul 1901 in Norwood, South Australia, Australia

Died 23 May 1968 at age 66 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Doris Taylor is Notable.

Doris Irene Taylor (1901-1968), founder of Meals on Wheels, was born on 25 July 1901 at Norwood in South Australia. She was the eldest of four children of Thomas Simpkin Taylor a bricklayer, and his wife Angelina, née Williams, late Pulford.

Doris Taylor MBE founded Meals on Wheels in South Australia in 1953, and in 1954 the first meal was served from the Port Adelaide kitchen. Miss Taylor was appointed an M.B.E in 1959. Even though she had become paralysed when her spine was damaged in a fall while playing with other children at the age of 12; she was never daunted by her own misfortune. She spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair and actively crusaded for the downtrodden and disadvantaged in society.

Social activist Doris Irene Taylor passed away in May 1968, in the Royal Adelaide Hospital of Bronchopneumonia, aged 66 years. She was cremated and initially was interred at Burnside but later moved to the Centennial Park Cemetery in Pasadena, South Australia. ^[1]

Note the South Australian Electoral district of Taylor is named after her.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Inscription 2628433 - Doris Irene Taylor from the Australian Cemeteries Index. (note no gravestone or memorial photograph
2. ↑ WIKIPEDIA

• South Australian Births, Deaths & Marriages: BIRTH: TAYLOR, Doris Irene - gender: F - father: Thomas Simpkin TAYLOR - district: Norwood - book/page: 681/7 - birth year: 1901. first accessed online on the 9th of October 2021 from the Genealogy SA's Online Database Search at: https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search

• Greg Crafter, Taylor, Doris Irene (1901–1968), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/taylor-doris-irene-11825/text21159, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 9 October 2021.

• Doris Irene Taylor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Doris Taylor (Meals on Wheels)). first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Irene_Taylor

• South Australian Births, Deaths & Marriages: DEATH: TAYLOR, Doris Irene - gender: F - district: Adelaide - book/page: 49A/3613 - death year: 1968. first accessed online on the 9th of October 2021 from the Genealogy SA's Online Database Search at: https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-database-search

• Grave site information of Doris Irene Taylor (25 Jul 1901 - 23 May 1968) at Centennial Park Cemetery in Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia from Billion Graves. first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://billiongraves.com/grave/Doris-Irene-TAYLOR/11573978

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153306535/doris-irene-taylor : accessed 9 October 2021), memorial page for Doris Irene Taylor (1902–23 May 1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #153306535, citing Centennial Park Cemetery, Pasadena, Mitcham City, South Australia, Australia ; Maintained by jlong (contributor 48741020) . (note: no Gravestone/Memorial photograph)

Further Reading

• Basic information from: Baldwin, Suzy (ed.) 1988, Unsung heroes & heroines of Australia p.p. 312-313 (Doris Taylor 1909-1968 written by Rosemary Neill), Elwood,Victoria, Greenhouse Publications.

• Meals on Wheels from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meals_on_Wheels

• Our Story from Meals on Wheels South Australia. first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meals_on_Wheels

• 1953 First Australian Meals on Wheels service from Australian Food Timeline website. first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/meals-on-wheels/

• Meals on Wheels from the State Library of South Australia's SA MEMORY website. first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=1587

• CUDMORE, Michael, 2001, Doris Taylor MBE. first published in S.A.’s Greats: The men and women of the North Terrace plaques, edited by John Healey (Historical Society of South Australia Inc., 2001). available from the ADELAIDIA website. first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au/people/doris-taylor-mbe

• MOTOR CAR AND INVALID CHAIR. from The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929) of Wednesday 29 July 1925, Page 7. first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57299131

• A WHEEL-CHAIR FOR EVERY INVALID from the Labor Call (Melbourne, Vic. : 1906 - 1953) of Thursday 24 May 1951, Page 2. first accessed online on the 9th of October, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/250000675

• J150 PLAQUE Doris Taylor