Memorials › Donna Eileen Mooney Novak
27 Jan 1931 – 22 Jan 2018
| Birth | 27 Jan 1931 |
| Death | 22 Jan 2018 |
| Cemetery | Sacred Heart Cemetery Early , Sac County , Iowa , USA |
| Added by | Jean on 23 Jan 2018 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186834130 |
Donna Novak age 86, died Monday, January 22, 2018 at the Jones Regional Medical Center, Anamosa, Iowa following a brief illness. Funeral services will be held 11:00 Friday morning, January 26, 2018 at Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa where friends may call after 9:30 AM.. Interment will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Early, Iowa in the spring. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Palliative Care at Jones Regional Medical Center . Surviving are 2 daughters, Joan (Bob) Holt, Lexington KY, Vicki (Jon) Russell, Cedar Rapids, 3 grandchildren, Brooke (Jon) Denio, Lexington, KY., Mike Russell, and Ryan (Keely) Russell both of Cedar Rapids, 4 great-grandchildren, Knox , Emsley, Ellisyn and Kason, 3 Brothers, Dale (Bev) Mooney, Sac City, Dick (June) Mooney, Alta, Damon (Pam) Mooney, Nemaha, 2 sisters-in-law, Dorothy (Ed ) Rosburg, Kiowa, CO and Elaine Rosburg, Lincoln, NE. She was preceded in death by her parents Marvin & Ruth Mooney, her husband Victor in 2014 and father and mother in law Stanley and Bessie Novak. Donna was born January 27, 1931 in Nemaha, IA, the daughter of Marvin and Ruth Parker Mooney. She graduated from Nemaha High School in 1949 and attended Buena Vista College and graduated with her teaching degree. She married Victor Novak on August 1, 1953 at the Fort Benning Chapel in Fort Benning, Georgia. The couple returned to Early and farmed for several years. She taught at schools in Rockwell City and Aurelia. They later moved to Toledo, IA where Donna taught at the Toledo Juvenile Home. Victors work with the U.S.D.A. took them to Jonesburg, MO, and later to Des Moines, where Donna worked at A.G. Edwards, and continued to work for them when the couple moved to Mc Allen, TX. In 2005 they returned to Iowa and lived in Martelle until 2009, when they moved to Anamosa. She loved to play bridge, and loved to watch sports, preferring the Anamosa boy's and girl's teams and both the men's and women's Hawkeye Basketball teams. Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa
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