Donna Jean (Owens) MCKEEVER

OWENS, MCKEEVER, BONJOUR, BALLINGER, GIPPLE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/6/2007 at 00:06:23

Donna Jean McKeever, 78, of Clarion, passed away Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at Wright Medical Center, Clarion. Funeral services were held Tuesday, September 4th at the United Church of Christ Congregational in Clarion. Pastor Dean Goebel officiated the 10 a.m. service. Burial was held at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Dows.

Donna Jean Owens was born July 23, 1929 in Olds, Iowa, the daughter of Ira and Ethel Owens. She graduated from Olds High School in 1946 and on October 6th of the same year was united in marriage to Mitch McKeever. For three years she worked as an operator at the Olds Telephone Company before moving to Dows in 1954. They lived in Dows until 1996 when Mitch and Donna moved to Clarion to live at the Meadows. Donna spent hours watching sports and movies, enjoyed doing puzzles of all kinds and loved to watch the birds.

She is survived by her children, Christine and fiance, Steve of Lake Mills; Danny and wife, Maria of Norfolk, Virginia; Karyl Bonjour and husband, Chuck of Webster City; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; one sister, Dorothy Ballinger and husband, George of Oskaloosa; and a host of nieces, nephews and friends. Donna was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Mitch of 50 years; a daughter, Rebecca; one brother, Virgil Owens and one sister, Mildred Gipple.

Wright County Monitor
September 6, 2007