Doris was born at home near Joaquin, TX on December 9, 1924. She never knew her mother who passed away shortly after her first birthday. Growing up in a poor farm family, the youngest of four sisters, she was raised by her grandparents, Arch and Bessie Lane. She graduated from Tenaha High School in 1943 and moved to Houston a few days later. She soon joined "the Rosie the Riveter" generation during the war effort. She was hired at the Dixon Gun Plant, operating an overhead crane moving gun barrels through production. While working for $1.45 an hour at the gun plant she met her husband for life, Jake Gucker.

They were married November 24, 1944, after Jake joined the Navy. Doris joined Jake at his first duty station in Cocoa Beach, Florida where they remained until his discharge in March of 1946. Moving back to Houston, they soon built their first home themselves near what is now Hobby Airport. In 1946 Doris gave birth to their first son, Stephen Evan. In 1952 they purchased a new home in the Northshore area of Houston where they remained until Jake's retirement from Diamond Shamrock Chemical in 1978. During those years, sons Wesley Evan and Michael Evan were born.

While raising her 3 sons, Doris also sold life insurance door-to-door, kept the books for a Hardware store, and volunteered for the PTA. She was a charter member of Uvalde Baptist Church and served there. She has taught quite a few Sunday School classes and Vacation Bible Schools over the years.

Returning to her roots and family, she and Jake retired in 1978 to live on Lake Murvaul.  They later moved Jake's dad, William Evan to the lake near them. And she cared for him until his passing in 1982. The Guckers were members of First Baptist Church, Gary and Southside Baptist Church, Carthage. Doris and Jake helped start a new church, New Hope Baptist Church, in Gary some years later.

After Jake's passing in 2007, Doris provided a home for her grandson, Jacob Wesley to earn his Master of Divinity. They both moved to Jacksonville in 2010, and she moved in with her sister Christine Bunn to care for her other sister, Clida Mae (Ned) Ross who lived across the street in a nursing home. Soon, she cared for both sisters until their deaths, at which time she moved to Michael and Jan's home in Crosby, Texas. She eventually relocated back to Lake Murvaul near Sara and Steve.

After several falls and surgeries, she moved to her final home in Highlands near Houston where she peacefully passed away.

Survivors include sons Steve & Sara of Gary, TX; Wesley and Nettie of Lake City, FL; Michael & Jan of Crosby, TX; grandson Jacob & granddaughter Tara, great granddaughter Pearl; numerous nieces and nephews and cousins.

Preceded in death by husband Jacob Gucker; infant grandson Evan Gucker and sisters Syble Stephens, Christine (Tean) Bunn & Ned Ross.

After Jake's death Doris established The Jake Gucker Scholarship at New Hope Baptist Church, P. O. Box 137, Gary, TX 75643.  Memorial donations may be given to this fund.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, at Jackson Cemetery in Joaquin with Rev. Steve Jackson officiating under the direction of Jimerson-Lipsey Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 1-2 p.m. on Wednesday prior to the graveside service at Jackson Missionary Baptist Church Community Hall, 11120 SH 7 East, Joaquin, Texas 75954.

A guestbook may be signed online at www.jimerson-lipsey.com.