Donna Lee Mountain 1934–2016 – Whos Your Daddy? Wikigenealogy

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Donna Lee Mountain, 1934–2016 (aged 81 years)

Name

Donna Lee Mountain

Name: Donna Lee /Mountain/
Given names: Donna Lee
Surname: Mountain
Married name: Donna Lee /Cooley/

Sex Female

Date differences

Family with Herbert Merton Cooley
husband	Links Birth: 25 August 1933 25 25 — Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA Marriage: 14 April 1960 — Washington, Colorado, USA Death: 8 January 1979 — Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Donna Lee Mountain Dale LeRoy Cooley Herbert Merton Cooley 1933–1979 Birth: 25 August 1933 25 25 — Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA Death: 8 January 1979 — Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA
herself	Links Birth: 16 February 1934 — Hyde, Washington, Colorado, USA Marriage: 14 April 1960 — Washington, Colorado, USA Death: 31 January 2016 — Longmount, Boulder, Colorado, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Herbert Merton Cooley Dale LeRoy Cooley Donna Lee Mountain 1934–2016 Birth: 16 February 1934 — Hyde, Washington, Colorado, USA Death: 31 January 2016 — Longmount, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Marriage	Marriage — 14 April 1960 — Washington, Colorado, USA
14 months son	Links Birth: 24 May 1961 27 27 — Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA Death: 19 February 2015 — Longmount, Boulder, Colorado, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Dale LeRoy Cooley 1961–2015 Birth: 24 May 1961 27 27 — Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA Death: 19 February 2015 — Longmount, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Events of close relatives
Birth	16 February 1934 Hyde, Washington, Colorado, USA
Marriage	Herbert Merton Cooley — View this family 14 April 1960 (aged 26 years) Washington, Colorado, USA
Birth of a son	Dale LeRoy Cooley 24 May 1961 Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA
Death of a husband	Herbert Merton Cooley 8 January 1979 Akron, Washington, Colorado, USA
Death of a son	Dale LeRoy Cooley 19 February 2015 Longmount, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Death	31 January 2016 (aged 81 years) Longmount, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Last change	28 May 2020 – 22:28:55 Author of last change: 7mikefh

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Note	Donna Lee (Mountain) Cooley peacefully passed away Sunday January 31st 2016 at the age of 81. She contracted Alzheimer’s disease late in her life so memory care facilities in the Longmont, Colorado area was Donna’s home for the past three years. She is being remembered as kind and loving with a unique sense of humor. Donna was born 16 Feb 1934 at home in Hyde, Washington County, Colorado. She was the eleventh of eleven children born to Wray and Dora Mountain. Donna attended rural schools during her grade school years. In the years 1946 through 1948 she attended the District 16 school in Platner, Colorado, upper grades 5-8 taught by Margaret Sears Cooley of Akron. As a young person attending Akron High School, Donna was a very good student and was chosen for Girl's State. She was a baton twirler and gave lessons to girls in the Akron community. During and after high school Donna worked as a telephone switchboard operator. Throughout Donna’s life, she worked as a medical records technician at the Akron hospital, EMT for Washington county, homemaker, and helped her husband run his TV business. After her husband's death in 1979 she worked twenty some years in varying capacities for the State of Colorado Legislature in the Capitol in Denver including State Services Secretary, Chief Legislative Secretary, and Bill Room clerk. This job ended due to a tragic automobile accident in 2007 when she was 73 years old. Donna had a deep love for the Lord; she was very active in her church, Akron Seventh Day Adventist. Donna was a long distance runner, running in the annual "Boulder Bolder" foot race held in Boulder Colo every year. Her other interests included serving on the Akron school board, the Akron Museum Association, and she was deeply involved in the Washington County Republican Party, holding several offices. She was a member of the local Rock Hound Club and loved to go arrowhead hunting. She took her children, family, and friends along. While out hunting arrowheads, she would tell the children if a snake bites you, do not bite them back. She loved to garden and grow medicinal herbs including organic dandelions (no weed killer or pesticides used in her yard) which she ate or put them in a shake. If you were around her for any length of time, you would be taught how to cook lentils and rice in a thermos. Donna had an extensive button collection (46 gallon jars holding thousands of buttons). Family and friends visiting Donna helped sort the buttons for hours. The collection is now on display at the Old Threshers in Yuma. Her parents, Wray and Dora Mountain, husband Herb Cooley and son Dale Cooley, her ten siblings: brothers - Bert, Walter, Edward, sisters - Marian Davis, Waunita Brown, Helen Pont, Phoebe Black, Elva Dexter, Dorothy Gisi, and Margie Shannon preceded Donna in death. Her children Dorcas "Dee" Webb of Fort Collins, Donita Pilkington and husband Gregory of Firestone, and Douglas of Lafayette, survive Donna. Grandchildren David Sundling of Akron, Eric Sundling of Denver, Laurissa Pilkington of Houston TX, Marcia Brake of Ft. Collins, Rita Schmid of Ft. Collins, Lauren Konet of Wadsworth OH and Wray Cooley of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, several great grandchildren and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.

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Donna Lee (Mountain) Cooley peacefully passed away Sunday January 31st 2016 at the age of 81. She contracted Alzheimer’s disease late in her life so memory care facilities in the Longmont, Colorado area was Donna’s home for the past three years. She is being remembered as kind and loving with a unique sense of humor.

Donna was born 16 Feb 1934 at home in Hyde, Washington County, Colorado. She was the eleventh of eleven children born to Wray and Dora Mountain.

Donna attended rural schools during her grade school years. In the years 1946 through 1948 she attended the District 16 school in Platner, Colorado, upper grades 5-8 taught by Margaret Sears Cooley of Akron.

As a young person attending Akron High School, Donna was a very good student and was chosen for Girl's State. She was a baton twirler and gave lessons to girls in the Akron community. During and after high school Donna worked as a telephone switchboard operator.

Throughout Donna’s life, she worked as a medical records technician at the Akron hospital, EMT for Washington county, homemaker, and helped her husband run his TV business.

After her husband's death in 1979 she worked twenty some years in varying capacities for the State of Colorado Legislature in the Capitol in Denver including State Services Secretary, Chief Legislative Secretary, and Bill Room clerk. This job ended due to a tragic automobile accident in 2007 when she was 73 years old.

Donna had a deep love for the Lord; she was very active in her church, Akron Seventh Day Adventist. Donna was a long distance runner, running in the annual "Boulder Bolder" foot race held in Boulder Colo every year. Her other interests included serving on the Akron school board, the Akron Museum Association, and she was deeply involved in the Washington County Republican Party, holding several offices.

She was a member of the local Rock Hound Club and loved to go arrowhead hunting. She took her children, family, and friends along. While out hunting arrowheads, she would tell the children if a snake bites you, do not bite them back.

She loved to garden and grow medicinal herbs including organic dandelions (no weed killer or pesticides used in her yard) which she ate or put them in a shake. If you were around her for any length of time, you would be taught how to cook lentils and rice in a thermos.

Donna had an extensive button collection (46 gallon jars holding thousands of buttons). Family and friends visiting Donna helped sort the buttons for hours. The collection is now on display at the Old Threshers in Yuma.

Her parents, Wray and Dora Mountain, husband Herb Cooley and son Dale Cooley, her ten siblings: brothers - Bert, Walter, Edward, sisters - Marian Davis, Waunita Brown, Helen Pont, Phoebe Black, Elva Dexter, Dorothy Gisi, and Margie Shannon preceded Donna in death.

Her children Dorcas "Dee" Webb of Fort Collins, Donita Pilkington and husband Gregory of Firestone, and Douglas of Lafayette, survive Donna. Grandchildren David Sundling of Akron, Eric Sundling of Denver, Laurissa Pilkington of Houston TX, Marcia Brake of Ft. Collins, Rita Schmid of Ft. Collins, Lauren Konet of Wadsworth OH and Wray Cooley of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, several great grandchildren and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.