Days of Our Lives has finally put Doug to rest with a touching memorial service and farewell. It’s also introduced a new legacy character with Doug Williams III, and tomorrow, Hope gets to meet her surprise nephew.

Days of Our Lives is mourning late legend Bill Hayes (Doug), and Hayes' on- and off-screen wife, Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie), is bringing her true emotion to the screen. Not only is Julie grieving Doug,

Days of Our Lives is mourning late legendBill Hayes (Doug), and Hayes' on- and off-screen wife, Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie), is bringing her true emotion to the screen. Not only

Saying goodbye to your beloved husband once has to be hard enough. But saying goodbye twice, seems just about unimaginable. That, though, is what Susan Seaforth Hayes did when her beloved Bill Hayes passed away.

On Days of Our Lives, beloved patriarch Doug Williams passed away on Thanksgiving. Today the soap opera celebrates its 15,000th episode by honoring the character and the man who played him, Bill Hayes-and no one is celebrating more than the onscreen and offscreen wife with whom he shared his Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award,