Donna Hensel

Here are some family photos.

Shared a photo.

A trip downtown to see Shen Yun.

More family shots!

I have loved looking through the family photos! – What a life and so many memories to keep her alive in all our hearts. Auntie Donna was my Baptismal sponsor, so destined to be important in my life from the beginning, and that she was. She and Uncle Win were also Baptismal sponsors for Josh. They were very special to us. I have such fun memories – lots of wonderful meals, doing dishes in the kitchen, camping in Door County, Glacier, & Rocky Mountain National Park. And always lots of laughter. I plant snapdragons in my garden, largely because I remember them in the back garden on 100th St. – It’s the little things, isn’t it?! When we were little, I remember she was such a raving beauty! – Wonderful clothes, beautiful hair and make up, and oh, those high heels! I have a picture in my mind of all the sisters-in-law on the sofas at the house on 100th St. They were certainly the “Greatest Generation” in so many ways! I remember talking with her one day somewhere in my adulthood. -- She told me she loved all of us nieces and nephews, but she didn’t really like us the year we were each in 8th grade, which of course, was the grade she had taught science for so many years. – So funny! I learned a lot from her throughout my lifetime – she was truly a role model to us girls in the next generation as we watched her go through life and she reinvented herself time and again. So many of our moms and dads left us at relatively young ages. – Your mom and dad were a constant for us and truly interested in our lives. – Thank you, Sally & Lynne, for sharing them both with us! Your mom was special – I loved her and I know that she loved me too. – What a gift!