KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Lyn “Williedean” Donaldson passed away on Nov. 5, 2014, surrounded by her family.

Lyn was born on October 29, 1930, in Arkansas as the third child to Elva and Edgar Vinson.

As a young child, her family moved west to California where they settled in Lake County, Calif. It is Kelseyville where she grew up and met her future husband, Charles Edward Donaldson.

She was a 1949 graduate of Kelseyville High School. A short time after she graduated, she boarded a plane to fly across the country to marry Ed, who had joined the military out of high school. They married in September of 1950 in Biloxi, Mississippi.

A few short years later the couple found themselves back in California, where she attended American River College in Sacramento, until she and Ed started their family.

In 1955 they had their first child, Mark, followed by their second son, Ross, and then they had their daughter, Ann.

Eventually, they finally settled back in Kelseyville. Her greatest joy was being a wife and mother to her three children.

After raising the children, Lyn worked for many years for Konocti Growers and Steele Winery, from which she eventually retired.

Lyn is preceded in death by her parents, Edgar and Elva Vinson; brother, Eddie Vinson; son, Ross Donaldson; and her beloved husband, Charles Edward Donaldson.
 
Lyn is survived by her son, Mark Donaldson and his wife Janice of Kelseyville; daughter, Ann Barron and her husband Troy of Elk Grove, Calif.; sister, Lois Chastain of Arizona; five granddaughters, Lyann, Mary, Erin, Marcy and Sydney; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Lyn will be remembered for her lifetime of grace, beauty, wisdom, laughter, inspiration and, most importantly, her unwavering, neverending, tireless, insurmountable, everlasting love shared with all she knew.

Lyn’s family wishes for friends of Lyn to join them for graveside services to be held at Kelseyville Cemetery on Monday, Nov. 10 at 2 p.m.

Anyone who would like to also celebrate Lyn’s life can join the family at 3555 Bell Hill Road, Kelseyville, immediately following the graveside services.