Donna Azure

Donna Azure, age 54, of Cave Junction, died Monday, December 2, 2013 at her home.

Services will be held in Summer 2014. Illinois Valley Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Remembrances may be made to Lovejoy Hospice, 939 SE 8th Street, Grants Pass, Oregon 97526.

Donna was born April 1, 1959 in Portland, Oregon to Stanley & Lee Azure. She graduated from high school in Molalla, Oregon. In 1978 she worked for Sam Walton in Tennessee at the original Walmart. In 1983 she moved to Cave Junction. She attended Rogue Community College and earned an Associate’s degree. She most recently worked for the U.S. Forestry Department as a firefighter until she medically retired after a breast cancer diagnosis.

Donna collected seashells, ocean glass, rocks with holes, and blue glass, all of which she decorated her garden.

Survivors include her companion, Robert Hartline of Cave Junction, Oregon; her mother, Lee Haynes of Cave Junction, Oregon; three sisters, Mary Farley of Grants Pass, Oregon, Jeanne McConnell of Hermiston, Oregon, and Kristine Roberts of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father.