Long-time YNGHA member Frances Marie (Rea) Donohue, 73, died peacefully in her sleep Friday June 13, 2008. Her funeral was Monday, June 16, at Gunsight Baptist Church with the Rev. Rex Boggs officiating. Burial followed in the Newcastle Cemetery, directed by Melton-Kitchens Funeral Home.

Rea was born Feb. 23, 1935, in Newcastle, to Andrew Jackson Brooks and Johnnie Lee Yarbrough Brooks. She had been a nurses aide, worked as mmedical records clerk for Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Walker Sayles Unit, Outreach Home Health Care, Girling Health Care, Stephens Memorial Hospital and Villa Haven Nursing Home. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and one sister.

Survivors include one daughter, Debbie Goswick and her husband Mike of College Station; one son, Bill Donohue and his wife Deena of Stephenville; one sister, Billie Jacobson of Eden; two brothers, Guy Brooks of Sunset and Pooch Williams of Newcastle; seven grandchildren; and 6 great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Gunsight Baptist Church or the American Diabetes Association.