- Date Of Birth: December 10, 1959
- Date Of Death: January 22, 2012
- State: Idaho
Our Donna left us the afternoon of Sunday, January 22nd after a long and courageous battle with Type 1 Diabetes.
Donna was born in Caldwell, Idaho to Jerry and Esther Lane. The family later moved to Nampa where Donna attended school from grades 1 through 12. She graduated from Nampa High School where she was active in sports, the Glee Club, and was very athletic, popular, and a fun girl to be around. While attending school, she didn’t want to tell or share the fact that she was enduring the rigors and tribulations involved with her battle with Type 1 Diabetes; the shots, blood test, eating requirements, etc. She just wanted to be treated as if she were “normal”. She was first diagnosed with the disease at the young age of nine and we immediately knew how tough she was and how she was going to handle the situation; she started giving herself shots and blood tests without once whining about the pain or saying “why me”.
After graduation, Donna was married, had a son Chad, a daughter Candice and moved with her family to California to chase the elusive “California Dream”. When the kids were grown, Donna moved back to the Boise Valley to be closer to her family and get back to her roots. Even though Donna wasn’t ever really healthy enough to work full time, she always had a part time job doing something she really enjoyed or was interested in, such as catering, or making fancy desserts. Over the past 10 years, diabetes started taking a toll on Donna but she never complained or wanted anyone to feel sorry for her and just wanted to be treated normal (like back in her school years). Over the past 5 years her blood circulation finally started getting bad as a result of diabetes complications. Her kidneys failed and she was on dialysis for the past seven years but for one reason or another, a transplant never came to be, but she never complained. She had open heart surgery, never complained. She had her right foot amputated, never complained. She had her left leg amputated below the knee, never complained. She always would say, “oh well, I guess that’s what I have to do, anyway, let’s go eat dinner, but not just any place, it has to have good “ambiance”!”
Donna will truly be missed by everyone who knew her because she was a special person who, even when she was sick, was the life of the party and was the one with the biggest smile. But, we know she’s now sitting at a table eating really good food at a place with “the best” ambiance.
Preceding Donna in passing was her father, Jerry Lane.
Donna is survived by her mother Esther Lane of Nampa, her son Chad of Boise, her daughter Candice and granddaughter Sailor of Boise, her brother Randy Lane and his wife Linda of Star, niece Dusty Lane Barnowski and her husband Joel of Boise, and many wonderful cousins, aunts, and uncles.
