DONNA L. RAWSON, 74

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Donna L. Kelly Rawson, 74, died Dec. 19, 2008, at the Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa.

Funeral services were Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Pelan Funeral Home in Tekamah. Interment was in the Evergreen Cemetery in Walthill.

Donna Lou Dunlap was born Aug. 12, 1934, on a farm north of Decatur to Walter and Mildred (Ferguson) Dunlap. She grew up on the farm in Thurston County and graduated from Decatur High School in 1952.

On May 23, 1952, she married George Kelly. The couple had three children.

On Feb. 3, 1969, she married Lyle Rawson. The couple had one child.

Over the years, she worked at the Nebraska Ordnance Plant in Mead, Wilkinson Manufacturing in Fort Calhoun, Sharlo Manufacturing in Tekamah, and Dimatic Die and Tool in Omaha. She retired from Dimatic in 1997. Following her retirement, she spent lots of time fishing and camping up at the farm.

She is survived by her sons and daughter-in-law, Ronald Kelly of Blair and Raymond and Dawn Kelly of Sioux City, Iowa; daughters and son-in-law, Linda and Bob Mills of Fremont, Tanya Rawson of Hooper; 10 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; brothers and sisters-in-law, Jim and Margaret Dunlap of Zearing, Iowa, Robert and Virginia Dunlap and Roy and Rita Dunlap all of Decatur; sister and brother-in-law, Alice and Bill Shamburg of Herman; nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Mary and an infant nephew.