- Date Of Birth: July 30, 1933
- Date Of Death: January 12, 2022
- State: Idaho
Donna J. Jones, 88 of Riggins passed away Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at Edgewood Spring Creek Assisted Living in Fruitland, ID. Donna Jean Nine was born on July 30, 1933, in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to parents Roy and Gladys Nine. She was the first of six eventual children in the Nine family: Donna, Pat, Gordon, Richard, Jerry, and Lanette.
In 1946 the family moved to Tamarack, Idaho, where her father, Roy Nine and his business partner, had purchased the sawmill and logging operation of Price Valley Lumber Company. Donna began attending school in New Meadows at the Meadows Valley School District. As a high school student Donna worked in the sawmill office in her spare time. She remembers riding the Galloping Goose on the railroad to the depot in New Meadows to deliver the lumber shipment bills of lading that she had prepared. She graduated from Meadows Valley High School in 1951 as valedictorian.
