Donna was born Dec 11, 1933 to Ernest Noel and Helen Sherry in Tacoma, WA.
She attended school in Yakima until she started working for her grandfathers business (Elis Café) Original Noel Family.
Donna’s first marriage gifted her 4 beautiful children. She later met and married the love of her life Don Denton and went to work for the VFW 397. She worked hard making her way up from a waitress to assistant manager. Donna worked there for 25 plus years until injuries resulting from a fall caused her to retire.
Donna took up hobbies, loved having backyard bbq’s, and having family and friends over. She loved going on camping trips with her husband.
She was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by friends and family.
Donna is preceded in death by her mother and father, her husband Don, her son Tim, her brother Tommy, Bert, Gilbert, Ted, Joe, and her brother-in-law Joe Garcia. She is survived by daughters Charlene Begay of Yakima, Sue (Jimmy) Prunier of Moxee, sister Karen Garcia of Moxee, brother John (Margit) Zepeda of Chelan and Kenny Zepeda of Puyallup and five step children.
A service will be held Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 1:00pm at Langevin El Paraiso Funeral Home.