Donna was born and raised in Detroit Michigan where she attended Pershing High School. After high school, at the age of 19, she married her high school sweetheart Nicholas Mike Neros. Together they shared five children. Donna was a hard worker and worked a multitude of jobs starting at the age of 14, right up to just before she passed. She was a book keeper for multiple businesses, ran an in-home daycare, worked for the State of Michigan, and especially loved her job working in the Publix Bakery in Georgia. She loved her family deeply, enjoying time and adventures with her grandchildren and was always up for a good game of poker. She was lovingly known around the poker table as Miss D. Donna had a true zeal for life with an infectious smile and a loving spirit that lit up any room she walked into. To know her was to love her and she unselfishly touched the lives of everyone she knew and loved.
She was preceded in death by her parents Sam and Nada and her daughter Andrea Neros. Surviving are her brother and sister-in-law Dr. Daniel and Sandra Mato, sister and brother-in-law Katherine and David Peters, daughter, Dr. Christina (Carson) Panella and sons; Michael (Theresa) Neros, Scott (Lisa Tarrant) Neros, Nicholas (Stacie) Neros II, nephew Colby (Laura) Ackerson, grandchildren; Robb (Ashley) Wallick, Alexia Wallick, Nicholas Neros III, Tyler Neros, Garrett Neros, Breanne Neros, Gabriel Padilla, great-grandchildren; Noah Hixon, Lukas Wallick and former spouse Nicholas "Mike" Neros.
Please join her family on Friday, October 25, 2019 from 4 to 8 pm at Gorsline Runciman Funeral Home (1730 E. Grand River Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823) for visitation with the Trisagion service beginning at 7:30 pm. Funeral Services will be held at 11 am on Saturday, October 26, 2019 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (1701 E Saginaw St, Lansing, MI 48912).
Please consider a memorial contribution in memory of Margaret Donna Neros to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105).
