Donna is a person that has spent her life giving to others as an RN and as a professor of nursing at a local Texas College.  Donna has stage 4 breast cancer with metastasis to the bone.  She recently had a pathologic shoulder fracture (pathologic means the break was due to a disease process, not due to an injury).  Post surgery, Donna reports the shoulder is mending nicely.  She is one of those persons that portrays strength and courage in the face of all things.  Recently, I went to visit a friend in the hospital.  I walked in and Donna was there with her husband sharing Bible verses that have provided strength to her during her illness.  Then she started sharing words of comfort to this patient.  The room was filled with a sense of peace and calm as she spoke. I was very touched as an onlooker. In many lives she has been the voice of stability in the midst of a storm.

Donna and John has been married for 52 years.  They have three children.