Donna Lea Aimes

1935-2011

Born 1935

Died 2011

Father: Dwight Leander Aimes

Mother: Gladys M. Hopkins

Donna Lea Aimes was born on 18 July 1935, the daughter of Dwight L. Aimes and Gladys M. Hopkins of Mulvane, Sumner County, Kansas. Her mother waited tables at the D & L Cafe for years. She had two brothers, Bob and Dean, and a younger sister, Joyce.

She married Donald E. Askins, an Air Force sergeant from Winfield. Their stone gives the date as 8 April 1972; their children were Leland, Keith, Michael and Susan, the sons born in the early 1960s. The family made its home at Mulvane, where Donald ran a heating and air conditioning business after he retired from the service. She was a homemaker. Donald died in 2000. Her son Leland, her brother Dean and her sister Joyce all died before her.

Donna died on Saturday 28 May 2011, aged 75. The Wichita Eagle listed her survivors: her daughter Susan Perry and husband Nick of Fayetteville, North Carolina; her sons Keith and wife Denise of Lilly, Pennsylvania, and Michael and wife Kristi of Wichita; her brother Bob Aimes and wife Mary of Mulvane; eleven grandchildren, Tim Full, Donna Full, Andrea Perry, Jacquelyn Perry, Jennifer Askins, Carl Askins, Courtney McSweeney, Billy Askins, Kevin Askins, Michael P. Askins and Amber Askins; and four great-grandchildren, Ian, Nikolajis, Thomas Jr. and Isabella. The viewing was on Friday 3 June and the service at 1 p.m. on Saturday 4 June, both at Senter-Smith Mortuary, 501 SE Louis Boulevard. In lieu of flowers the family asked for memorials to St. Jude Children's Research. She is buried beside Donald at Mulvane Cemetery, Block 13, Lot 1.

Parents

Dwight Leander Aimes 1909-1971 Gladys M. Hopkins 1911-2002

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial 70508880, Donna Lea Aimes Askins, photograph added by SPerry, 1 February 2013.

Find a Grave, memorial 32181996, Donald E. "Don" Askins, Mulvane Cemetery; photograph by Del Huggins, 2009.

Wichita Eagle, about 21 September 2000, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 32181996.

Wichita Eagle, June 2011, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 70508880.

Wichita Eagle, 29 January 2002, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 32181949.

United States census, 1940, Sherman Township, Crawford County, Kansas; FamilySearch index.

Wichita Eagle, June 2011, obituary (Find a Grave memorial 70508880); gravestones at Mulvane Cemetery; Find a Grave memorials 32181948 and 32181949 (her parents), 33217976 (Joyce), 266512434 (Bob).

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