Ladonna J Berge

LaDonna J. Berge December 16, 1931 - April 23, 2013

LaDonna J. Berge, age 81, of Faribault, passed away on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at the District One Hospital following a recent illness.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at the Parker Kohl Funeral Home & Crematory of Faribault, with Bernadette Tatge, Pastoral Minister of Divine Mercy Catholic Church, officiating. Private family interment will be held at the Meadow Ridge Memorial Park in Faribault for both LaDonna and her sister Charlotte.

Visitation will be held at on Friday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. and for one hour prior to services at the funeral home on Saturday.

LaDonna Jane Helgeson, the daughter of Harry and Mary (Pederson) Helgeson, was born on December 16, 1931 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. She attended Kenyon High School and on June 24, 1950 was united in marriage to Wayne J. Berge in Faribault. He later preceded her in death on January 30, 1996. LaDonna began working at Control Data for a few years and later started with the Faribault School District. She continued to work there for eleven years as an educational assistant before working at the Faribault Regional Center as a human service technician, until she retired in 1994. LaDonna loved garage saling, taking trips to the casino and watching both court cases and cooking shows on television. Her favorite past time was spending time with her family as they meant to world to her.

She is survived by her loving children, Stephen (Donna Rae) Berge of Faribault, Mark (Tracey) Berge of Lewisville, TX, Deborah (Mike) Kelly of Faribault, Dean (Cathie) Berge of Pensacola, FL, Cheryl Berge of Brooklyn Park and Michelle (Jeff) Turner of Faribault; her 26 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren; her brothers, Rolland (Pat) Helgeson and Richard (Roselyn) Helgeson, both of Faribault; her sisters-in-law, Delores Helgeson of Burbank, CA and Marian Helgeson of Faribault and by many nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

She Howard, Berge. was James preceded and in Darwin death by Helgeson, her parents, Charlotte her husband Ronning Wayne; and by and her brother-in-law, by her siblings, Lyle