Donna Lee Janney

During the Depression they lived in the Tulsa area and helped work her great uncle’s farm. Later they moved to Floresville/Sutherland Springs area of Texas, then to Corpus Christi, then returning to Floresville a few years later. She graduated from Sutherland Springs in 1944. She married Edward Hayden in 1946 and had two sons, Jody and Gary. In 1951 she married Bill Janney and had four more children, Yvonne, Alex, Calvin and Jeffrey. She has lived and raised her children in Houston, San Antonio, and Kerrville. Along with her husband Bill, she purchased land in Tow on which to retire. Unfortunately, Bill passed away in 1991 before they were able to do so. Upon her retirement she did move to Tow and spent many years enjoying the company of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren at the lake.

The story of her life is full of stories that range from having polio as a child and being healed by a Navajo Shaman to walking out of Walmart and having her pants fall down; from fishing in the river to teaching her children how to swim it and from rocking babies to worrying if they would make it home safe at night , or safe from war.

The story of her life is that through joy and pain, through laughter and tears, through love and heartache she lived with all the love a mother’s heart could bear for her family no matter what.

We will miss you.

Donna was preceded in death by her parents, husband William Price Janney, sister Evelyn Payne Woods, brothers Melvin Payne and A.O. Payne, grandson Matthew Hopkins and great grandchild Liam Hayden-Aguilar.

She is survived by her daughter Yvonne Shuffield & husband Fred of Tow, sons: Edward Hayden & wife Sherry of LaPorte, Gary Hayden & wfe Claretta of Pasadena, Alex Janney & wife Quahn of Bangok, Thailand, Calvin Janney & wife Sandra of Chandler, AZ and Jeffrey Janney of San Antonio, 21 grandchildren and 1 on the way, 17 great grandchildren and her sister-in-law Jamie Payne of Rio Rancho, NM.

Visitation will be Tuesday, July 24 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM at Clements-Wilcox Funeral Home.

Funeral service will be Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 10:00 AM at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Marble Falls with Bishop Fred DeBusk officiating. Graveside service will be at 3:00 PM at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Kerrville.