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Celebration of Life:
The Board Room, 227 North Kickapoo Street in Lincoln
on Saturday, June 8, 2024 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Graveside service: Saturday,
June 22, 2024 at 1 p.m. at the Powell Valley
Cemetery & memorial in LaFollette, TN.
Funeral home: Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral
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Obituary
Donna Mae Farnam, 80, of Atlanta,
IL., passed away May 2, 2024 , surrounded by her
family, at Memorial Medical Center, Springfield.
Cremation rites have been accorded by Holland Barry
& Bennett Funeral Home.
A celebration of Life will be held
at the Board Room, 227 North Kickapoo Street in
Lincoln on Saturday, June 8, 2024 from 4 p.m. to 7
p.m.
Graveside services and burial will
be on Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 1 p.m. at the
Powell Valley Cemetery & memorial in LaFollette, TN.
Donna was born June 26, 1943, in
Almond, Wisconsin, the daughter of Jay Raymond Newby
and Dorothy Mae (Skilling) Newby. She married
Chalmers ( Lee) Farnam on March 27, 1965. He
preceded her in death on March 7, 2009.
Donna was employed at Myers
Industries for more than 30 years. She was a foster
grandparent at Christian Child Care for several
years. Family was everything to her. She loved
spending time with her grandchildren and great
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Donna enjoyed sports and was an avid Green Bay Packers and
Chicago Cubs fan. She enjoyed fishing with her husband and her grandson Josh.
Survivors include her children: Eileen Jones and Brenda (Paul)
Goodwin; grandchildren: Joshua Farnam, Matthew (Samantha) Kennett, Nicholas (Lyndsey)
Shehorn, Lucas (Tasha) Jones, and Hope (Brandon) Duffey; great grandchildren:
Noah Kennett, William Kennett, Gavin Shehorn, Benton Shehorn, and Avery Duffey;
brother Richard (Gloria) Newby; several nieces, nephews, great nieces and great
nephews, and her canine companions Buffy and Dolly.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, daughter Diana Firkins,
son Carl Farnam, sister Ruth Ann Stagnolia, brother Leland Newby, and canine
companion Heidi.
Memorial donations may be made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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