A FORMER nurse who has dedicated her life to helping others has been nominated for a Your Champions award.
Doreen Wardle, of The Green, Whitby, started working as a midwife in the 1960s, delivering dozens of babies in Ellesmere Port, before becoming a health visitor at Hope Farm Clinic until her retirement.
Throughout her working life, the mother-of-five was also a dedicated Brown Owl, Sunday school teacher and magistrate.
Through her work as a Sunday school teacher, Doreen would often invite underprivileged children round to her home for dinner and games, and the experience later spurred her on to become a charity fundraiser.
She has completed the Race for Life three times, the Liverpool 10k, taken part in regular bag packs and has even been on two medical missions to Kenya and India.
On both trips she accompanied teams of doctors and nurses to remote villages to help people who couldn’t afford medical assistance. Her fundraising enabled her to buy medical supplies to take with her.
Doreen, a member of St Thomas’s Church, Ellesmere Port, and Bethany in Flatt Lane, has recently got involved with the Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal and for many years, has given up her Christmas Day to make Christmas dinner at St Thomas’s Church for lonely people.
As well as this, Doreen volunteers at a call centre for estranged parents wanting to see their children, has worked as a bereavement counsellor for Cruse and been a constant supporter to African charity Water Aid.
Her daughter Sam Cadwalladar said her mother was ‘amazing’.
“I know she is my mum but she really is amazing.
“Our house was constantly open when we were growing up, there was always someone she was helping, she has always been such a giving person,” she added.
