About two years before our heroic actress Doris Day left us at 97. She was one of the most famous stars during the golden age of Hollywood.
She performed in a maximum of 30 movies. From 1947 to 1967 she released more than 650 songs. She won many awards for her enthusiasm for music and movies. She even won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The fabulous actress and singer died in 2019 and her close friend disclosed that she did not want a funeral, memorial, or grave marking.
Her talent, love for animals, and modesty evoked people to love her. In her 50-year career, she was a most cherished and well-known actress for her film work.
Pillow Talk, Love Me or Leave Me, and The Man Who Knew Too Much, all these movies took her to the top of her career.
She married 4 times but only had one child: Terry Mulcher, Day’s son from her first husband Al Jorden.
He died due to melanoma in 2004.
She was not only the superstar of the silver screen but also the greatest reformer of animal rights.
She was a very warm-hearted person who fought for animals without a voice.
Doris also won the Grammy Award.
A Grammy singer has the recording with the most votes in a category wins.
Sentimental Journey, Secret Love, and Que Sera Sera, both songs took her into the Grammy Hall of Fame and her love for animals led to the establishment of the Doris Day Animal Foundation.
On 13th May 2019, Doris Day died due to condensing pneumonia. At the time of her death, she was at her home, in Carmel Valley California United States.
Her death was declared by her charity foundation, the Doris Day Animal Foundation, which added as the will of Star there would be no funeral services, grave marker, or other public memorials.
Rather, She was ignited, and her ashes scattered.
Her close friend and the manager said that she did not like to talk about the funeral because she fought for death.
And this is the actual reason for her last will.
“She didn’t like death, and she couldn’t be with her animals if they had to be put down. She had difficulty accepting death,” he said in a 2019 interview with People.
“I’d say we need to provide for her dogs [after she died], and she’d say, ‘I don’t want to think about it’ and she said, ‘Well, you just take care of them,’” recalls Bashara.
“She had several when her will was written, and she wanted to be sure they were taken care of. She didn’t like to talk about the dogs dying.”
In the earlier 70s, Doris was a passionate promoter of animal rights and condemned wearing animal fur, setting up the Doris Day Animal Foundation.
In 2020 she even sold her belongings that were above $3 million only to build a Horse Rescue and Adoption Center which helps the soring and neglected horses in Texas.
Her only child Terrence “Terry” Paul Jorden was born after her first marriage to trombonist Al Jorden who she met with him when she was only 16 years old.
Jorden later changed his name to Terrence Paul Melcher when he was adopted by Day’s third husband film producer Martin Melcher.
Day “drifted away” from organized religion after Melcher died in 1968, Bashara told People, but remained “a spiritual person.”
“She believed in God, and she thought her voice was God-given,” he says. “She would say, ‘God gave me a voice, and I just used it.’”
She retired from acting in the early 70s but she came back for two TV shows .
she hosted her on a TV show in 1985 named “Doris Day’s Best Friends” from the Christian Broadcasting Network which ran for only one year.
Her friend and manager, Bashara says that he remains unaware of why Doris hesitated for her funeral but he explained further “I think it was because she was a very shy person.”
He also said that Day came to know people loved her as she received many letters but she never understood why so many people loved her.
“She never let her celebrity affect her and who she was, and she was always the little girl from Cincinnati who was extraordinarily talented and went out in the world and did what she loved to do despite herself,” he says.
She was ignited and her ashes were scattered.
Her property was donated to charity.
The acclaimed actress will always be alive in the hearts of her friends.
May Dorise Day’s soul rest in peace!