Biography: My sister, Doris Day on The Gary Moore Show in 1959

Doris was the daughter of Ira Reese Day, an accountant for Curtis-Wrights Aeronautics 

Ind., and Ruth Catherine Dunn.  Her siblings were L Day, J Day, Ira (Ike) Reese Day, Jr, and D Day.  The family lived in and around the Paterson, New Jersey area.

When Doris as 11, my mother got a phone call for a kid who had got to school with my older sister.  She couldn't understand what he was saying, something about could Doris be on TV.  My mother thought it was a hoax and hung up.  Then a man called a few more times and she would hang up again.  Well, about an hour later Gary Moore called himself.  He started the conversation with "Don't hang up, Mrs. Day.  I'm really Gary Moore and we would like your daughter to take the place of the actress, Doris Day who is sick." That got her attention.  The father of the boy who called earlier, was a camera man on the show.  Hearing of the shows' dilemma the son told of a former classmate having a sister with that name.  So from there that started the ball rolling, and the phone calls were made.  My father drove Doris to New York City to make her star appearance.  For her performance, Doris got a Schwinn bike, $500 and a case of Winston cigarettes, for my father to smoke.   Watch the episode of the show at: https://youtu.be/XtnBPiYNmAg

 

Doris passed away on the 26 Nov 2017. She leaves behind a daughter, C.  Winterberg whom Doris said was her best friend and the light of her life.   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/257793229/doris-ann-day

Source information

New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903 
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Name  • Doris  DAY  Winterberg 
Age  • 68
Birth Date  • 9 Jan 1949
Birth Place  • Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Death Date  • 24 Nov 2017
Death Place  • New Jersey, USA
Source information 
Title 
New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903 Author 
Ancestry.com Publisher 
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.  Publisher date 
2016 Publisher location 
Lehi, UT, USA