Donna Kay Bellefeuille

Funeral services for Donna Kay Bellefeuille, 56, Sulphur were held Saturday, Sept. 25 at 2:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Sulphur with Rev. Robert Green officiating. Interment was in Oaklawn Cemetery with Clagg Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Born March 29, 1948 in Sulphur to Ben Seeley and Viola Quinton Seeley, she died September 23 in Sulphur. She married Russell Bellefeuille on July 1, 1967 in Sulphur. He preceded her in death on July 18, 1999. She had lived in this area all her life. She graduated from Sulphur High School in 1966 and attended Haskell Institute. She was employed by the Chickasaw Nation as transportation director for over 30 years. She was a member of the Abundant Life Church where she was pianist.

She is survived by a daughter, Cheri Lynn Bellefeuille-Eldred, Sulphur; a son, Chuck Lynndelle Bellefeuille, Sulphur; her parents, Ben and Viola Seeley, Sulphur; two sisters, Rhonda Priddy and Sharon Sartors, both of Sulphur; a brother, Larry Seeley, Dickson; a grandson, Noah Eldred, Sulphur; her mother-in-law, Isabelle Bellefeuille Naytahwaush, Minn.; two brothers-in-law, Ronnie Bellefeuille, Mahnomen, Minn. and Butch Bellefeuille, Naytahwaush, Minn. and three sisters-in-law, Marilyn Goodwin, Mahnomen, Minn., Myrna Smith, Naytahwaush, Minn. and Joan McCormick, Sioux Falls, S.D. Also surviving are nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Cris Lynette Bellefeuille in 1979.

Pallbearers were Kenneth Frazier, Ray Meeley, Johnny John, Kenneth Gilmore, Edison Sealy and Mark Byars. Honorary bearers were men of the Abundant Life Church, Stanley Foster, Joanna MacCollister, Phil Hurst, Lonnie McIntosh, Shirley Washburn, Bobby Johnson, Robert Flurry, Richard Carney and Lee Frazier.

Published in the Sulphur Times-Democrat October 3, 2004