(September 12, 1960 – August 17, 2024)
Donna M. Irwin passed away August 17, 2024. Donna was born September 12, 1960, in Hicksville, NY. She was the fifth child born out of a family of seven. She moved to Houston in 1962 until 1970 when she moved to Baytown. Donna graduated from Ross Sterling in 1978. She was a letterman basketball player, number 10. She met her husband Ronald Cornelison (Tex), that same year.
They married 4 years later. She lived in Baytown until 1988 when they moved to Stephenville, Texas. From there in 1992 they moved to Dublin, Texas, where she worked for UPS for 16 years. She and her husband started a nursery in Dublin, Texas called Texas Outback for 9 years when they decided to close the nursery. She and Tex both had green thumbs and could grow the best tomatoes and asparagus. Their property kept them both busy with 80 peach trees, and grapes.
Donna is preceded in death by her parents, Art and Gloria Irwin, brothers, Bill, Artie and wife, Cookie, and Peter.
She is survived by her husband, Tex Cornelison, of Dublin, Texas, son, Leland Cornelison and wife, Edith, of Bluff Dale, Texas, sister, Linda Cathey, brothers, Paul Irwin and wife, Pat, Robert Irwin and wife, Marilyn, of Old River-Winfree, Texas, 4 grandchildren, and numerous nieces, and nephews.
There will be a private service held at a later date.
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