Donna E. Westfall

Donna Westfall


Donna Elizabeth Westfall, 74, Topeka, died Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at a Topeka care center.
Mrs. Westfall retired from the city of Topeka Water Department. She earlier had owned and operated Mothers Attic Antiques.

She was born Dec. 8, 1928, in Hoyt, to James Henry and Myrtle Mae Dillinger Bailey. He graduated from Silver Lake High School.

Mrs. Westfall was a member of Lowman United Methodist Church, past matron of Hoyt Chapter No. 189 of the Order of the Eastern Star, a member to the Provost Guard of the Arab Temple, Kansas Grand Representatives Association of the Order of the Eastern Star and she was Kansas Order of the Eastern Star Grand Chapter Representative to the Grand Chapter of Maryland from 1988 to 1990.

She married John Merritt Westfall Jr. on Oct. 17, 1948, in Hoyt. He died Feb. 25, 1997.

Survivors include two sons, Michael Westfall, Delia, and Samuel Westfall, Topeka; two daughters, Pamela Rohr, and Linda Rickson, both of Topeka; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Parker-Price Mortuary. Chapter No. 189 will conduct Order of the Eastern Star Services. Burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery at Grove. Mrs. Westfall will lie in state at the mortuary after 2 p.m. Thursday. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Shriners Crippled Childrens Fund and sent in care of the Arab Shrine Temple, 1305 S. Kansas Ave., Topeka, 66611.