Donna Faye Hallenbeck

It is with heavy hearts we announce Donna Fay Hallenbeck went to Heaven on Friday June 13, 2025, in Grand Junction, CO after battling Alzheimer’s disease. She was born May 2, 1938 to Otto and Oneta Young in Van Alstyne, TX. As a small child, she and her family moved to Bakersfield, CA.

After graduating from Shafter High School in 1956, she moved to Santa Barbara to attend UCSB, and eventually married her husband, Edwin Hallenbeck. They lived a happy life together until cancer took him shortly after he retired. Together, they raised two children, John and Elizabeth. Donna and her family attended Trinity Baptist Church, where she also worked in the kitchen making lunches for the preschool/kindergarten. Donna will always be remembered as the “kitchen lady” or as “Donna the Cake Lady” for her years of service making memorable cakes for all special occasions.

She treated everyone like family and made every person she met feel included. She was known to her kids friends as “mom” and her grandkids’ friends as “Grandma Donna.”

Donna is predeceased by her parents, her husband Ed, her brother Charles Young and his wife Clarice, her son John and his wife Chris, and her daughter Elizabeth. She is survived by her sister Glenda Altenhofen in Colorado, son-in- law Joseph Neal, grandchildren Erin (Brian Reed), Ben Wolcott (Megan), Erin Rhoads, and Sarah (Clint Seevers), as well as great grandkids, and many nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews.

She will be missed deeply by everyone who had the pleasure of knowing her. Services are currently pending.