Lehman, Donna Jean Lehmann (1940-2006)

Latest revision as of 14:36, 5 April 2011

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Aug 28 p. 12

Birth date: 1940 Feb 14

text of obituary:

Donna Jean Lehman, 66, of Fort Wayne, Ind., died July 26, 2006, at Lutheran Hospital. She was born Feb. 14, 1940, to Berniece (Liechty) and Edison Lehmann in Adams County.

She married Michael Lehman on Oct. 4, 1959, in Berne.

She graduated from International Business College of Fort Wayne. She was a freelance writer and wrote for various publications, including being a congregational correspondent for Mennonite Weekly Review. She was author of the book What on Earth Can You Do. She was co-chair of the Fort Wayne Parkinson’s Support Group, a member of the Fort Wayne Christian Writers Group, a former editor of the “Women in Mission” publication, and co-author of Maplewood Roots, the history of Maplewood Mennonite Church.

She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother, who will be dearly missed by her family. Her hobbies included reading, gardening, sewing, baking and serving others. She was a member of Maplewood Mennonite Church of Fort Wayne.

Survivors include her mother, Berniece Lehmann of Berne; two sons, Bruce Lehman and Carl Lehman, both of Fort Wayne; a daughter, Pamela Pulliam and her husband, George, of Fort Wayne; four siblings, Shirley Prentiss of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Karen Lehman of Berne, Wanda Smith of Columbus Grove, Ohio, and Arlene Lehmann of Denver, Colo.; and four grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at Maplewood Mennonite Church in Fort Wayne. Burial was at M.R.E. Cemetery of Berne.