Donna Longacre

LONGACRE, STUTZ, BUCKLER, KOEHN

Posted By: June Brewer Welsch (email)
Date: 3/17/2009 at 07:16:43

Source Muscatine Iowa Journal Nov 15, 1999
URBANA, Ill. - Donna B. Longacre, of Urbana, Ill., formerly of Summit, N. J., died Sunday, Nov. 14, 1999, at The Carle Arbours, Savoy.

Services will be at Renner-Wikoff Chapel in Urbana. The Rev. David Alberts will officiate. A private burial will be held later at Camargo Cemetery in Camargo. Memorials may be made to the Cunningham Children's Home or the First United Methodist Church, both in Urbana.

Mrs. Longacre was born on July 9, 1922, in Newman, Ill., the daughter of LeRoy and Winnie Olive Stutz Buckler. She married Robert Koehn and he preceded her in death in 1963. She later married Charles J. Longacre on Oct. 3, 1981, in Urbana.

She graduated from University of Illinois. She was an elementary school teacher for Urbana School District for 26 years.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church of Urbana, United Methodist Women, Beta Mu Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Chapter H.I.P.E.O., former board of trustee member of Cunningham Children's Home, Urbana.

She was past officer of Junior League of Champaign/Urbana; a member of Douglas County Historical Museum, Gourmet Club, was a volunteer at Krannert Center at the University of Iowa. She was a gardening enthusiast and traveled extensively in both Europe and the Far East.

Survivors include a son, James R. Koehn of Matteson, Ill.; a brother Harold E. Buckler of Champaign, Ill.; a sister, Lucille B. Wallace of Urbana, Ill.; and two grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Robert Koehn, a son, and two brothers.