Donna F. Dean

9/21/1937 – 9/27/2020

Omaha –

Donna (Zimmerman) Dean was born September 21, 1937, at home in Rulo, Nebraska.  She attended grade school and junior high in Falls City, Nebraska, and graduated from Central High in Omaha.  She worked as a typist at Mutual of Omaha 1956-1958.  Donna and LeRoy Henry Dean were wed on August 25, 1957, and moved to farm in Pierce 1958-1961, where she became mother to three children.  In 1961, they moved to a ranch west of Pierce, where their fourth child was born. They lived at the ranch until 1965, when the family moved to Omaha.  She was a loving wife, mother to two sons (Michael and Robert), two daughters (Susan and Sally), and to two sons-in-law (Chris Ganow and Roy Berke). She was blessed with five grandchildren—Jason Ganow, Amanda (Ganow) Stevens; and Matthew, Kyle, & Ryan Dean.  She is also survived by her brother Jerry Zimmerman. Donna was preceded in death by son Michael, 1988; sister Carol, 1993 ; sister Waunetta, 1997; and husband LeRoy in June 2020.

Visitation Thursday 12:00 – 1:00 PM at church

Funeral Service Thursday (10/1/20) 1:00 PM at Northwest Hills United Church of Christ 9334 Fort St. Omaha, NE. Interment Hillcrest Memorial Park.  Memorials to Northwest Hills United Church of Christ.

 

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