Funeral services for Iesha Jasmine Donaby, 17, of West Helena will be held on Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 2 p.m. at the Twin City Church of Christ Highway 49 in West Helena with the Rev. James Williams officiating. Burial will follow in the Jackson Memorial Gardens near Lexa. Visitation will be Friday, July 4, 2008 from 6-8 p.m. at the Robert Lee Brown Memorial Chapel.
Donaby was born on May 9, 1991 to James and Annie Lee Donaby; died on Monday, June 30, 2008 at the Wesley Medical Center in Witchita, Kan.
She attended Central High School in Helena-West Helena and would have been a 2009 graduate where she continuously maintained a 3.6 grade point average and was a member of the Silver Cloud Missionary Baptist Church in Helena. She was very devoted to her education and had planned on attending college after graduation.
She will forever be cherished by her loving and caring father and mother, James and Annie Lee Donaby of West Helena; three brothers, Dometric (Shellvie) Steele of Memphis, TN, James (Teresa) Donaby III and Jermaine Donaby of West Helena; two sisters, Shirlette Donaby and Keiaundra Donaby of West Helena; her grandmothers; Sarah Bradley of West Helena, and Margarett Staten of Wichita, Kan. and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives and friends.
Brown’s Home for Funerals, Inc. will direct the services.