Donna Jean Noble

Donna was born March 30th, 1934 in Wilcox, Nebraska to Ethel and Gusta Johnson. She was the youngest of ten surviving children born into a very close farming family. She was an artist and dreamed of being a fashion designer but decided to study the secretarial arts as a practical measure while helping her parents after they lost their farm in the Great Depression. At the age of 25 she married Robert Fred Noble and together they had three children, Janelle Bettinger (Ray Bettinger), David Noble (Lauren Noble) and Jean Pennell (fiancé Chuck Piekarski). She was very proud grandmother to Andrew Campbell (Jasmyne Campbell), Jordan and Cody Noble, and Logan and Reed Pennell. She was blessed to be great-grandmother to Kingsley, Cannon and Knox Campbell.

Donna was an Executive Secretary for the USGS/Topographic division for 43 years. She could type 130 words a minute! She tried retirement for a few years but found she needed to keep busy. For the past 15 years, up until the time of her death, Donna worked at Administrative Concepts as a receptionist and goodwill ambassador. Donna loved people and people loved Donna. She loved to "play the slots", dance, laugh, and have coffee with her friends and family. A Christian woman, she enjoyed playing the piano and organ and attending church every Sunday and more. Her greatest passion, however, was helping others. She cared for many ailing family members over the years and was always kind to the downtrodden. To list the names of people she has helped would take a book. Her family would like to honor this amazing lady with a celebration of her life later in the summer, when her cremated remains are interred with those of her parents at Crown Hill cemetery in Wheat Ridge, CO. The date and venue for that celebration will be decided on and communicated out in the near future.