Obituary - Donna E. (Cornella) Larson

Donna E. (Cornella) Larson, 95, went to be with the Lord Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at Sweet Nursing Home of natural causes.

Her Vigil Service will be at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. Her funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church in Havre. Burial will be next to her husband at Highland Cemetery.

Memorial donations in Donna's name may be made to St. Jude's in Havre, St. Anthony's in Box Elder, or to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105. Memorials may also be sent to the Mayo Clinic Cancer Research, 200 1st St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905 or to Swedish Medical Center Foundation, 1124 Columbia St Ste 110, Seattle, WA 98124.

Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements.

Please visit Donna's online memorial page at https://www.hollandbonine.com to send a card or leave a message of condolence for her family.

Donna was born February 6, 1928, to Victor and Gladys (Lamphere) Cornella in Haynes, North Dakota. Her dad worked in the coal mine there, and later farmed. Her family later moved to Minnesota for a few years, and then on to Havre, where Donna graduated from Havre High School in 1946; and then attended one year of college at NMC.

Donna worked as a stenographer for the government from 1947 to 1952; working for a year at the Bureau of Reclamation, and later for the Corps of Engineers in Fort Peck; spent one winter at the Bureau of Land Management in Billings; and then returned to Havre where she worked for the Border Patrol until 1952.

March 29, 1951, she married Edward O. "EO" Larson in Shelby. Donna was a stay-at-home mom. She raised a garden and always had flowers around the yard. Her hobbies were reading, canasta, knitting, and needlework pictures. She liked to listen to audio books while she sewed.

She loved and enjoyed her children, her grandchildren, and especially her great-grandchildren. She enjoyed just sitting and watching the babies and toddlers play in their cute little ways, and later watching them grow and mature.

She was a member of St. Jude's Catholic Church, and also attended St. Anthony's in Box Elder.

Donna was preceded in death by her husband, Edward O. in 2001; her parents - her dad, Victor, in 2002 and her mother, Gladys Cornella, in 2003; her sisters, Darla Jasper in 2006 and Dolores Bliss; her brother, Duanne Cornella; as well as an infant granddaughter, Gahbrielle Courtney, in 1995.

Survivors include Donna's children, daughters, Patti (Jack) Solomon of south Havre, Debbie (Jerry) D'Hooge of Havre, Joenne Courtney of Avon, Illinois; son, Robert E.O. (Cheryl) Larson of Billings; 11 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; as well as many cousins, nieces, and nephews.