This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MarthannKohlFuhs Surnames: Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.harrison/4318/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Perse, Donna L. Mackey Sept. 11, 1930 - April 23, 2007 Logan (IA) Herald-Observer 5/10/2007 Funeral services for Donna L. Perse were held at 2 p.m. April 28 at Fouts Funeral Home in Woodbine. Pastor Shurmaine McAlpine officiated at the services. Music was provided by Margaret Cotton and Sue Benedickt. Special selections were "Wind Beneath My Wings," "In The Garden" and recorded selection "In The Arms of An Angel." Burial was in the Woodbine Cemetery. Donna L. (Mackey) Perse, age 76, of Denver, Colo. died April 23, 2007 at the Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colo.. Donna was born on Sept. 11, 1930 in Hamburg, Iowa to parents James Earl and Mabel B. (Trimble) Mackey. She graduated from Woodbine High School in 1948 and had worked at Eby Drugstore while in school. She then moved to Omaha and worked at Westinghouse. Westinghouse transferred her to New York where she met her future husband, Harold Perse. The couple was married on March 27, 1956 in South Carolina. The couple lived in Panama for two years then were transferred to Los Angeles and then to the Denver, Colo. area. Donna was baptized in the Woodbine Presbyterian Church. She is preceded in death by her father, James E. Mackey, Sr.; a brother, James E. Mackey, Jr.; and a sister, Shirley K. Corbett. Survivors include her husband, Harold, of Denver; two sons, Perry Perse of China and Joey Perse of Denver, Colo. and their families; mother, Mabel Mackey of Woodbine; sisters, Mabel Brummer of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Marilyn Connell of Omaha, Neb., Carol Morrison and husband, Bill, of Woodbine and Janet Heig and husband, Terry, of Sunrise Beach, Mo.; her six grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Fouts Funeral Home of Woodbine was in charge of the local arrangements. Fouts Funeral Home 501 Normal St. - Woodbine Ph. 647-2221 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.