Donna Jean (McMichael) Hudson (2020)

BROWN, COWLING, CRAIG, CUSTER, DOWNEY, EVISON, HARROLD, HENDRICKS, HUDSON, JONES, MCMICHAEL, PATTON, PROCTOR, SWANSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:23

Powers Funeral Home
Afton, Iowa

Donna Jean Hudson, 73, of Arispe, died Thursday, October 1, 2020 at her home near Arispe.

Celebration of Life Memorial Services are will be 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at the Powers Funeral Home 612 North Dodge St. in Afton. Social distancing will be observed. Burial will be at a later date. Rev. Jim Morris will officiate.

Open visitation will be 2-7:00 p.m. Tuesday, with family receiving friends from 5-7:00 p.m. Tuesday at Powers Funeral Home in Afton.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are to the Care Initiatives Hospice, Arispe Methodist Church, Shriner’s Children’s Hospital or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Online condolences can be made at powersfh.com.

Donna Jean Hudson was born December 25, 1946 in Winterset, Ia., to Carl Ernest and Merle Maxine (Evison) McMichael. She graduated from Interstate 35 High School in 1965. She worked for USF & G Insurance Company following high school in Des Moines.

On August 5, 1967 she was united in marriage to Mark Edwin Hudson in Winterset at the First Christian Church. In 1969 they moved to San Antonio, Texas and she transferred to work at USGF & G Insurance and was later a stay at home mom starting in 1970. In 1971 they returned to Iowa and lived east of Arispe. In 1990 she worked at Heat Tech in Afton and worked there until they closed in 2003 then went to work at Bunn-O-Matic in January 2005 and retired in January 2013.

Donna was a member of Del Shannon Fan Club, that she helped start in 1991 in Coopersville, Michigan. She donated memorabilia to the Del Shannon Museum, which was her favorite place to visit.

Survivors include her husband Mark Hudson of Arispe; her faithful canine companion Julie (Pooh); her children: Cheri (Ron) Brown of ,Shannon City, Melanie (Brad) Proctor of Indianola; Tammi (David) Downey of Afton, Jodi Jones (significant other Aaron Custer) of Afton, Jeff (Erin) Hudson of Afton, Mary (Grant) Swanson of Afton, her brother Richard (Patty) McMichael of Truro, brothers-in-law, Clark Hudson of Afton, Brian (Janet) Hudson of Orient and David Hendricks of Adel; her sister, Shirley (Bill) Craig of Shannon City; sisters-in-law, Rose (Robert) Harrold of Decatur, Ill. and Katherine Cowling of Orient; 19 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, many nieces, nephews other family and friends.
Donna was preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Merle McMichael, infant sister Nancy Jean McMichael, sister Joyce Patton, parents-in-law Ralph and Marie Hudson, brother-in-law Daniel Hudson and her sister-in-law Twyla Hudson.

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