Donna Louise Bush Carle

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NOVEMBER 22, 1943 – FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Donna Carle, 75, passed peacefully early in the morning on February 3, 2019, at Hudson Memorial Nursing Home after a long battle with vascular dementia. She was born November 22, 1943, in El Dorado, AR to Nathaniel Clyde and Eradelle Chandler Bush. Donna graduated from El Dorado High School in 1961 and from Southern Arkansas University in 1965 with a BSE.

Donna lived a life of service, working as a teacher and at the Arkansas Department of Human Services as fraud investigator, case manager, and rehab counselor. Donna volunteered much of her extra time to her beloved church and other organizations. Her family knows she was welcomed into heaven with the words, "Well done, my good and faithful servant!"

She will be remembered as a gracious, loving, generous, intelligent, accomplished, determined, hard-working, Christian woman. Donna dearly loved her children and family.

Donna wrote 7/10/09

I will make every effort to attend the fall reunion.

Retired from Arkansas Dept of Heath & Human Services and Arkansas Teachers Retirement.

I am moving Mother's Day back home to El Dorado.
I have been in Fayetteville for almost 2 yrs.  Fayetteville is a very nice place to live, but I would have enjoyed it a bit more, when younger.  My daughter and her husband will be relocating in August and I had told when I moved up here, that I would help out with my little grandson, (who was newborn at that time) untill my son-in-law completed his MFA.  He receives it today.
I look forward to being back home.

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1961–1965 Student at Southern State College, Major-Elementary Education, Minor–Social Science, Degree-BS Education, Class of 1965.

1965–1968 Teacher one year at LRAFB Elementary, Jacksonville, AR 4th grade 1965 – 1966
1966–1968 Teacher – El Dorado, AR, 3rd, 4th & 6th grade

1968–1972 Social Worker – Arkansas DHS, El Dorado

1972–1974 Social Worker, State Office, Little Rock, AR

1975–1976 Leave of absence-while my husband was in grad school at Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX.

12/76–2/77 Returned to work as Admin Asst to the Commissioner of AR Dept of Human Services
           
Honors received: Vice President of Arkansas DHS Social Services Employees Assn.
             
Served on boards for AGEQ, Union County Cerebral Palsy Assn, Pulaski County UCP Assn.

2/77-1st daughter born, moved to a farm between Lamartine & Falcon (stay at home mom).

1978–1980 Returned to teaching at Waldo, AR. Returned to college and worked on a Master’s Degree in Education.

7/1980–2nd daughter was born in July 1980; she was a special needs child.

1982–Returned to work for Arkansas DHS as a caseworker, promoted in 1985 to investigator.

1985–Began employment as a Counselor for the Rehab Services (a branch of DHS) in Texarkana.

Honored to serve 1 year as Vice-President of the Rehab Counselors Board and  then as President of the of the Rehab Counselors Board of Arkansas
Also served as Vice-President of the PTQ at W T Daniels School, Texarkana.

1992–2000 Employed by the DDS Division of Human Services of AR until I retired in  May 2000. My job at time of retirement was DDS Services, Coordinator III.

My children were my greatest blessings.  Laura is 34 & will be giving birth 8/17/11 to a little girl (Olivia). Her oldest child is Max Barrow (age 5). She is married to Austin Barrow. They met  in the 6th grade and began dating in the 9th grade.  Upon graduation from EHS in 1996, they attended college at LA Tech and married in 7/1998. They told me not expect grandchildren until their 30’s. They waited until age 29 – my son-in-law is the new Festival Director in El Dorado, my daughter is an Anesthetist.

I lost my youngest daughter Jessica in 2006 at age 25. She was my greatest teacher. She was born in 1980 with Down’s Syndrome & a hole in her heart.  We were able to provide heart surgery for her at age 13 months. She lived a happy life until developing acute leukemia in 2006. She graduated from EHS in 2000 (Special Needs Diploma). She never met a stranger and loved everybody. I miss her.

Life has its ups and downs, but can be quite wonderful. I sincerely hope to see all of you at our class reunion. Imagine 50 years.  The new high school is beautiful.

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