Lakeland, Florida
Donna Mae Joyce Novak
1932 — 2023
Donna Mae Joyce Novak, 90, of Lakeland, Florida, died on January 22, 2023, at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, in Lakeland. She was born to parents Fannie and James Halverson, on December 11, 1932, in their rural home in Arland Township, Wisconsin, and the youngest of six children. Life was quite different than today's world. The whole family worked on the farm doing the chores that needed to be done. They moved, in later years, to a larger farm purchased from her grandparents. Donna walked a rural road to a one-room schoolhouse for the first eight grades, then rode a bus to high school. She always had a lot of friends and would often bring one home to her already overworked mother...