Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Donna Lee GILBERT JEFFERS

Donna Lee JEFFERS, 69, formerly of Sabetha died Friday, March 5, 2010, in the Autumn Oaks Caring Center in Mountain Grove, Mo.
She was born in Sabetha on Sept. 7, 1940, the daughter of Guy and Frances FEEK GILBERT. She grew up in and attended school in Kansas. She was loved and cared for by her mother and grandmother while growing up. Se enjoyed being outdoors, especially when fishing, and taking care of farm duties and tending to her animals.
Donna was a kind and caring mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. She never met a stranger and will be truly missed by those who knew and loved her.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Linda SMITH on March 14, 1998.
Survivors include her son and wife, Tommy and Heather JEFFERS of Mountain Grove; two brothers, Robert GILBERT of Warsaw, Mo., and Albert “Smokie” GILBERT of Mountain Grove; three sisters, Linda PARSONS of Mountain Grove and Wanda HOWARD and Dianna RAYBERN, both of Lawrence; four grandchildren, Matthew and Brittany SMITH, and Justin and Abbigail JEFFERS; a great-grandchild, M. J. MOONEYHAM; several nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were Tuesday in the CRAIG-HURTT Chapel in Mountain Grove, Mo., with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery. Donations/Contributions are suggest to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The Sabetha Herald, March 10, 2010