Funeral services for Donna L Reichl will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 5, at First Baptist Church in Clarks Grove. Pastor Jamie Cameron will officiate. Interment will be in the Clarks Grove Cemetery. Visitation from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday at Bonnerup Funeral Service in Albert Lea, as well as one hour prior to the service at church.
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend, Donna Louise (Fuller) Reichl was born in Iowa on June 30, 1918, and died on March 31, 2013. She was adopted by Edward and Fredrikka Fuller at ten days of age and was raised in Albert Lea. Donna was a partner in the farming business with her husband, Earl. They farmed in the Clarks Grove and Lerdahl area and in 1954, moved to the Geneva area. After retiring from farming, Donna ran Reichl Boot and Shoe in Blooming Prairie for 15 years. She was a lifetime member of the Clarks Grove Baptist Church, and had been a member of the East Geneva Neighbors Club since shortly after moving to Geneva.
Left to cherish her loving memory are her four children, Elaine (Dean) Jensen, Shirley (Buzz) Moen, Karen Core-Hemingway, and Duane (Janice) Reichl; nine grandchildren; seventeen great grandchildren; and four great great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband of 61 years, Earl; brothers, Lester, LeRoy, and LeMoyne Fuller; one grandson, Curtis D. Jensen; and two great granddaughters in infancy, Sophie and Grace Currier.
Memorials may be directed to Albert Lea Hospice at Mayo Clinic Health Systems Albert Lea: 404 West Fountain Street.
