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Sharon Skrove posted a condolence
Monday, January 30, 2012
So sorry (Kathy) to hear of your moms passing. Will remember her every time we go to the steak fry. Time seems to go to fast for the ones we love.
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Rhonda Sivarajah posted a condolence
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Our thoughts and prayers are with you as you mourn the loss of someone so dear. May the wonderful memories you have be a comfort to you in the days ahead. One of my earliest memories of Donna was going to her house for 4H with my Grandma Ardis Swedeen. I was too young to join but Donna always included me anyway making me feel welcome in the group. Those are special memories I will always treasure. Lean on Christ as only He can give you strength in times of sorrow.
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Laurie Zahn posted a condolence
Saturday, January 28, 2012
For my sister Donna, and her children from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
"A sister is a friend given by nature."
We were all born at home - all 8 of us, I was the last of them - Donna was the nurturer of our family, our second mother.
When she was in high school she sewed me a sunsuit, I was about 3 years old. I remember how much I loved that sun suit. When I was in 7th grade she sewed me a green corduroy jumper, she mde one for Norma Jean too. Donna took me to the only movies I ever got to see. I especially remember "Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein". She made great meals, and cinnamon rolls. Her salt pork gravy and chicken salad were fantastic. She did so many things for me as a "little" sister. When my son, Ken was just a few months old, I got sick, she came and got him and took him home and took care of him for a week until I got well. I cannot recall all of the times she helped me!
We have talked on the phone about once a week for 50 years. I will miss that.
I wish I could write more - or say more - she was just the greatest sister one could have, and I will miss her greatly.
Things we shared -
Stubbornness
Loving family
High blood pressure
and the same parents.
The following poem came to mind as I think of Donna's passing:
A Parable of Immortality, by Henry Van Dyke
"I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch
until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, "There she goes!"
Gone where? Gone from my sight … that is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side
and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone at my side says,
"There she goes! there are other eyes watching her coming
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
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The following poem I think exemplifies the way Donna lived her life:
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Live A Life That Matters
Ready or not,
someday it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises,
no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected,
whether treasured or forgotten,
will pass to someone else.
Your wealth,
fame and temporal power
will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned
or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations,
and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans,
and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses
that once seemed so important
will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from,
or on what side of the tracks you lived,
at the end.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter?
How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought,
but what you built;
not what you got,
but what you gave?
What will matter is not your success,
but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned,
but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity,
compassion,
courage or sacrifice that enriched,
empowered or encouraged others
to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence,
but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew,
but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.
What will matter is not your memories,
but the memories that live in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered,
by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.
It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.
Author Michael Josephson
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Susan Rasmussen posted a condolence
Saturday, January 28, 2012
On the arms of an Angel, may you rest in peace and rise in glory. Blessings to you as you walk with Jesus now. Blessings to your family as they celebrate the life you so generously gave.
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Mike and Kathy Minnema posted a condolence
Saturday, January 28, 2012
We have only known "grandma Donna" for 10 years as our son married into the Wallin/Klaer's family at grandma's cabin. Grandma Donna always made us feel so welcome at the cabin and at some of the holiday gatherings we enjoyed at her home in Cambridge. We also know her through the eyes and words of our son as she became a very special grandma to him also. She created many special memories for her family and friends and those memories will live on in each of our hearts and minds.
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Heidi Clark posted a condolence
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Selling the sweetest corn at the roadside stand at the top of her drive...the pond in the backyard where you just might get a leech on you....riding out tornado warnings in her basement....sharing a double bed with my sister and a couple of cousins....waking up to the smell of bacon and eggs cooking in her comfy farm kitchen....catching my first fish off the dock at her lake house...watching the first moon landing on the black and white TV in her living room...and visits from her and Uncle Marvin every January when they made the trek from the frigid climes of Minnesota for a much-anticipated stay at our home in balmy south Texas. Every family should have an Aunt Donna. She helped me define the meaning of family and was a blessing to all of us in so many ways.
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DeDe Hebner posted a condolence
Friday, January 27, 2012
I loved my Aunt Donna so much; she was such a good, good person. I have so many wonderful memories of being at her big old house out in the country -- good, good times. I loved it, too, when my family would get a Wallin Family winter visit to our South Texas home, and we'd all throw on a jacket and go out to South Padre Island and look for shells. Donna so loved family, and family so loved her back!
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29
January
First Visitation
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January
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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Cambridge, Minnesota, United States
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Cambridge Lutheran Cemetery
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