This is Eric and family in the 1939 Register:
Burford Household (3 People)
24 Oakham Avenue , Dudley C.B., Worcestershire, England
FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB SEX OCCUPATION MARITAL STATUS SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SUB NUMBER
Eric S Burford 15 Feb 1907 Male Hairdresser Assistant Married 178 1
Patience A Burford 02 Mar 1902 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 178
Peter A Burford 03 Jun 1936 Male Under School Age Single 178 3

Patience gives her date of birth as 2 March 1902 however the death registration is a little different:

Deaths Sep 1969
BURFORD Patience Ann 2Mr1898 Dudley 9b 298

Patience is older that Eric so may have been economical with the truth

There are 2 birth registrations for a Patience A Dean as follows:

Births Jun 1898
Dean Patience Ann Stourbridge 6c 193

Births Sep 1898
Dean Patience Ann Dudley 6c 107

We know that one married Eric S Buford and this is the marriage of the other:
Marriages Dec 1917
Dean John J Dean Dudley 6b 1634
Dean Patience A Dean Dudley 6b 1634

Jeff has listed a death of a Patience A Dean in 1937 so John would be widowed in 1939 unless he remarried by then. Here he is in the 1939 Register:
Dean Household (2 People)
208 Pedmore Road , Dudley C.B., Worcestershire, England
FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) DOB SEX OCCUPATION MARITAL STATUS SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SUB NUMBER
John J (Joseph) Dean 22 Aug 1896 Male General Labourer Brick? Widowed 19 1
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Mike