Donna Lee Foiles

Donna Lee Foiles (44) passed away on November 12, 2010 at the Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 10:00am in the Mountain View Mennonite Church in Bonners Ferry, Idaho with interment following in the Mountain View Mennonite Cemetery. Donna was born in Van Nuys CA, July 25, 1966. She is survived by her Mother, Jennifer Jones, Father, Kenneth Jones, and three children: Brandy Lee Cunningham, age 24, Crystal Amber Cunningham, age 22, and Brandon James Cunningham, age 18: brother Michael Uthe and wife Lisa; and two grandchildren: Sean Michael Cunningham, age 2, and Kolton Cunningham, age 6 months. Shortly after she was born her Mother moved to San Antonio TX where Donna went through High School. She married and moved to Mathis TX where she had her children. Donna almost immediately started working in a Nursing Home as an aide. She later went to Bee College where she got her Associates Degree and became an LPN. She continued working in nursing homes because she enjoyed the people she met. Later she was offered the job of detention officer in a Maximum Security Prison in South Texas. In 1998 she moved to Illinois where she became a psych nurse and detention officer in the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. She stayed there until the facility was closed by the state in a cost reduction effort. She went back to her first love, nursing homes. She began college in 2002 to get her Bachelors Degree so that she become an RN, like her Mother. She had to drop out in her last semester due to complications from injuries received in a past auto accident. She moved to Bonners Ferry ID in 2006 to be near her Mother. Donna's home life was always full of people. Friends were always coming over to visit, or she was going to visit them. All the neighborhood kids knew that if they went to Donna's house there would be something interesting and/or fun happening. And always snacks and drinks. They played games, inside and out, including chasing each other around with water guns, inside and out. It was normal to see 15 to 20 kids at her house. Almost everyone who ever met Donna loved her. She was a very happy and outgoing person who loved people, young and old. One of her greatest passions was working in her yard. She loved flowers and digging in the dirt. But that was second to her Grandson, Sean. They were almost glued together. She was his "MeeMaa" and he was her "Boogaboo". What ever she was doing, he had to be helping. Donna will be missed by her family and everyone who knew her. Family and friends are invited to sign Donna’s book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.