Donna Mae Firkins passed away Tuesday April 3, 2018 at Brighton Gardens in Omaha, NE. Donna was born on July 23, 1939 in Pilger, NE on the family farm to Edward and Matilda (Carlsen) Coney, the sixth of eight children. She played the piano and French horn and sung duets with her sister. She graduated from Pilger High School in 1957. She attended Kearney State Teachers College.
She worked at Peter Kiewit Construction as a personal stenographer and typist for Peter Kiewit and other executives and engineers. She met her husband where he worked at HDR in the same building. They married in 1963. Together they raised four children. Donna was artistic and loved painting, sewing, bowling, swimming, and gardening. An accomplished pianist, she shared with her children her love of music. Donna was active in church and taught vacation Bile school and enjoyed singing in the church choir.
In her later years, she worked for Wells Fargo in mortgage management. Her interest in fashion deepened. She had always enjoyed dressmaking and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to pursue a degree in art history. She began designing clothing and was an avid fan of Omaha Fashion Week. She loved the movie theater. Donna was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. and through the application process discovered six ancestors on the Mayflower, as well as, many royal European ancestors. She loved gardening and maintained a vigorous variety of heirloom tomatoes in the summer time. She enjoyed watching her grandchildren grow. She helped them study and attended their many school activities, music recitals, and sporting events.
Donna is survived by her husband, daughter, three sons, four grandchildren, sister and brother.
Information taken from the Roeder Mortuary Obituary and was used with permission of family.
She worked at Peter Kiewit Construction as a personal stenographer and typist for Peter Kiewit and other executives and engineers. She met her husband where he worked at HDR in the same building. They married in 1963. Together they raised four children. Donna was artistic and loved painting, sewing, bowling, swimming, and gardening. An accomplished pianist, she shared with her children her love of music. Donna was active in church and taught vacation Bile school and enjoyed singing in the church choir.
In her later years, she worked for Wells Fargo in mortgage management. Her interest in fashion deepened. She had always enjoyed dressmaking and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to pursue a degree in art history. She began designing clothing and was an avid fan of Omaha Fashion Week. She loved the movie theater. Donna was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. and through the application process discovered six ancestors on the Mayflower, as well as, many royal European ancestors. She loved gardening and maintained a vigorous variety of heirloom tomatoes in the summer time. She enjoyed watching her grandchildren grow. She helped them study and attended their many school activities, music recitals, and sporting events.
Donna is survived by her husband, daughter, three sons, four grandchildren, sister and brother.
Information taken from the Roeder Mortuary Obituary and was used with permission of family.
Donna Mae Firkins passed away Tuesday April 3, 2018 at Brighton Gardens in Omaha, NE. Donna was born on July 23, 1939 in Pilger, NE on the family farm to Edward and Matilda (Carlsen) Coney, the sixth of eight children. She played the piano and French horn and sung duets with her sister. She graduated from Pilger High School in 1957. She attended Kearney State Teachers College.
She worked at Peter Kiewit Construction as a personal stenographer and typist for Peter Kiewit and other executives and engineers. She met her husband where he worked at HDR in the same building. They married in 1963. Together they raised four children. Donna was artistic and loved painting, sewing, bowling, swimming, and gardening. An accomplished pianist, she shared with her children her love of music. Donna was active in church and taught vacation Bile school and enjoyed singing in the church choir.
In her later years, she worked for Wells Fargo in mortgage management. Her interest in fashion deepened. She had always enjoyed dressmaking and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to pursue a degree in art history. She began designing clothing and was an avid fan of Omaha Fashion Week. She loved the movie theater. Donna was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. and through the application process discovered six ancestors on the Mayflower, as well as, many royal European ancestors. She loved gardening and maintained a vigorous variety of heirloom tomatoes in the summer time. She enjoyed watching her grandchildren grow. She helped them study and attended their many school activities, music recitals, and sporting events.
Donna is survived by her husband, daughter, three sons, four grandchildren, sister and brother.
Information taken from the Roeder Mortuary Obituary and was used with permission of family.
She worked at Peter Kiewit Construction as a personal stenographer and typist for Peter Kiewit and other executives and engineers. She met her husband where he worked at HDR in the same building. They married in 1963. Together they raised four children. Donna was artistic and loved painting, sewing, bowling, swimming, and gardening. An accomplished pianist, she shared with her children her love of music. Donna was active in church and taught vacation Bile school and enjoyed singing in the church choir.
In her later years, she worked for Wells Fargo in mortgage management. Her interest in fashion deepened. She had always enjoyed dressmaking and enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to pursue a degree in art history. She began designing clothing and was an avid fan of Omaha Fashion Week. She loved the movie theater. Donna was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. and through the application process discovered six ancestors on the Mayflower, as well as, many royal European ancestors. She loved gardening and maintained a vigorous variety of heirloom tomatoes in the summer time. She enjoyed watching her grandchildren grow. She helped them study and attended their many school activities, music recitals, and sporting events.
Donna is survived by her husband, daughter, three sons, four grandchildren, sister and brother.
Information taken from the Roeder Mortuary Obituary and was used with permission of family.
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