June 13, 1938 - December 13, 2020
The Mass of Christian Burial honoring and celebrating the life of Ms. Carol Rose Donahue, 82, of Enid are pending under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
Carol was born in Los Angeles, California on June 13, 1938 and passed from this life December 13, 2020 at Integris Bass Hospital, Enid, Oklahoma.
Carol was the youngest of five children and spent her early years in California before moving to Marysville, Kansas during middle school. She attended Irving High School and married her high school sweetheart in January 1959 and later adopted her only daughter, Katherine Ann, in 1969.
After living in Kansas, Idaho, Florida, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and North Dakota. Carol eventually settled in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1989 to work at Ren Corporation for her life-long friends Gary and Nancy Roberts, the founders of the hydraulic engineering company. Carol provided office management while working on her technical writing degree and became a proud Oklahoma State University Poke graduate in 1999.
Carol loved to attend OSU football games, gardening at her little duplex, and most of all caring for her spoiled cats.
She also loved the ones that will miss her the most, her daughter and son-in-law Katherine and Chad Chambers and her two grandchildren Abigail Ward and Jakob Lewis, of Enid, Oklahoma.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations in Carol’s memory may be given to the Humane Society of Stillwater and the Enid SPCA with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made to the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com. As one of Oklahomaʼs oldest single family owned and operated providers of funerals and cremations, Brown-Cummings is the name families have turned to for generations. They fully understand the honor and responsibility entrusted to them to preserve the story of oneʼs life. Visit 400 W. Maple, Enid, OK 73701. Call: (580) 237-5432.
Obituaries are posted, in part, due to the generosity of The Commons.
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