Former Blair resident, Donaldeen S. Cadden, 77, of Santa Rosa, Calif., died Dec. 21, 2003, in Santa Rosa.

Funeral services were Monday, Dec. 29, at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Santa Rosa. Interment was at the Lakewood Memorial Park in Hughson, Calif.

Donaldeen S. (Tyson) Cadden was born Feb. 24, 1926, in Long Beach, Calif., to Donald and Luella Scott. The family moved to Denair, Calif., in the early 1930s.

After graduation from Denair High School in 1943, she entered nursing training at Merritt Hospital in Oakland, Calif. World War II was still raging when she took a position at Hammond General Hospital, a U.S. Army hospital, in Modesto, Calif. It was there she met her future husband, Paul Tyson.

At the conclusion of the war, having married, the couple moved to Blair where she took on the role of farmer’s wife and mother. The family returned to Modesto, where she managed a physician’s medical office for a number of years. When childcare was no longer a factor, she and her husband, Paul, returned to the family farm in Nebraska. Her husband later died of a stroke.

On a visit to California, she was reacquainted with Patrick Cadden, whom she had “dated” when he was in the Navy during the war. When he was widowed, a love was rekindled, and the couple married on Oct. 15, 1994, and settled in Santa Rosa in 1997.

The couple have been members of the Holy Spirit Faith Community, where they have enjoyed the love and support of the community.

She is survived by her husband and best friend, Patrick J. Cadden; sons and daughters-in-law, Gary and Janel Tyson, Donald and Maggie Tyson, Ronald and Sherry Tyson; five grandsons and two granddaughters; sister, Betty Gross Smith of Modesto; and a niece, Carol Wilson.

She was preceded in death by her devoted husband, Paul Tyson, and her first son, H. Scott Tyson.

Memorials are suggested to the Marianist Today Fund, Marianist Province of the US, PO Box 1775, Cupertino, CA, 95105-1775, or the charity of the donor’s choice.

Lafferty & Smith Colonial Chapel in Santa Rosa was in charge of arrangements.