Donna Mae Thon

Memorial services for Donna Mae Thon, age 82, of Albert Lea will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 21, 2015 at the Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Al Stoa will officiate. Interment will be in Hillcrest Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.
Donna passed away on February 18, 2015 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester.
Donna Mae Christopherson Thon was born on March 8, 1932 in Albert Lea the daughter of Milton and Cora (Hansen) Christopherson. She was baptized and confirmed at First Lutheran Church. She graduated from Albert Lea High School and then went on to Medical Technician Training in Minneapolis.
After living in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Germany, Donna returned to Albert Lea in 1960 and began working for Drs. Louis and William Kuchera. After Dr. Louis Kuchera’s death she began working for Scotsman Systems in the Industrial Nurse’s office and remained with them for over 21 years. She then worked for Bayview Funeral Home and Johnson Floral.
Donna was a member of First Lutheran Church and was active in FLCW, the Altar Guild, and was a life member of the Sons of Norway. She was very proud of her Norwegian heritage. Donna derived much pleasure in life with hobbies of travelling, reading, walking, crafts, and floral arranging. Her pet hobby was cooking and baking as generations before her had blessed her with an aptitude for this.  She loved to see and appreciate the humor in life and hoped she’d be remembered for her sense of humor.
Donna leaves behind a lifetime of memories and survivors, cousin Sharon Wood and her family who became Donna’s  extremely special adopted family Jacquelyn Bellamy, Mike and Pat Seracki, Jim and Blake Bellamy, Scott, Jody, Paige, and Corey Bratsch, cousin Bill Stein and family and many others.
Donna was preceded in death by her parents, aunts Lyla Wood and Cora Hansen, cousins Edsall Wood, Helen Hanson Tiller, and Duane L. Boyd, as well as many other aunts and uncles.