Donna Lee Whitman (Flaa), 65

On Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, Donna went home peacefully to her Father surrounded by family and friends.

On Oct. 22, 1950, Donna was born in La Grande, Ore., to Don and Dorothy Whitman. As a small child, she moved to Spokane, Wash., where she met her dear friends, Marianne Sutton and Terry Welch, who are her best friends still today. She attended Rogers High School where she was active in choir and the glee club. She also worked full time at Ross Bros. grocery store where she met her future husband Roger Flaa. Roger and Donna were married Jan. 3, 1970, and they had two children, Kevin and Amy.

Donna worked for more than 30 years as a commission sales representative for both Montgomery Ward and Sears and she was good at it. Several of her co-workers became lifelong friends. What she did love was playing the piano and singing with the Sweet Adelines. In her younger years, she also loved to be in athletics: softball, volleyball, or just about anything competitive. Donna also liked to tell tall tales from which her friends and family coined the phrase “Donna Stories.”

The thing Donna loved the most was her family. She is survived by her aunt, Vivian Griggs; son Kevin Flaa and his wife Tracy; and daughter Amy Lanning and her husband Cliff. She had six grandchildren, Shawn, Brenden, Hannah, Kennedy, Christopher and Sabrina; and three great-grandchildren. She also had several aunts, uncles and cousins. Donna is preceded in death by her father, Don Whitman; mother Dorothy Whitman and sister Bonnie Walther.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at Bell Tower Funeral Home and Crematory, 3398 E. Jenalan, Post Falls, followed by a potluck reception at 3 p.m. at the Post Falls Senior Center, 1215 E. Third Ave.