Memorial Hospital following brief illness. She was born March 31, 1938
in Wellsville the daughter of the late Gerald L. and Marie M. (Newland)
Canfield. On July 16, 1966 in Wellsville she married Rodney L. Horton
who survives.
Donna was a 1956 Graduate of Wellsville High School, and a graduate of
the Continental School of Beauty in Olean. She was formerly employed by
the Herbert Cooper Company in Genesee, PA, K-Mart in Wellsville, the
Wellsville Manor Care Center, as a nurses aide, and a home health aide.
She loved to collect cookbooks, and cook, and baking was her passion.
Surviving in addition to her husband Rodney, are two daughters, Kelly
(Joseph) Griffith, and Patti Ball, two grandsons, Lance (Katie) Conley,
and Eric C. Conley, a great grandson, Jason M. Conley, two sisters, June
(Melvin) Brandes, and Connie (Clair) Armison, two brothers-in-law, Roger
Horton and Max Armison, as well as three nieces, and six nephews. She
was predeceased in addition to her parents by two sisters, Joyce A.
Canfield, and Bettty A. Armison, a sister-in-law, Joanne Horton, a
nephew, Mark Horton, and a son-in-law, who recently died, Daniel Ball.
A private funeral is being planned with Rev. Timothy Armstrong
presiding. Burial will be in Whitesville Rural Cemetery. In lieu of
flowers, please consider memorial donations to the Alzheimer's
Association. To leave online condolence, please visit embserfuneralhome.com.
