Christine Alease Robinson Donahue

Mrs. Christine Alease Robinson Donahue, 92, went to be with her Lord and Savior Sunday, July 21, 2024, at Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehab Center in Salisbury.

A funeral service is scheduled for 1:30 pm Thursday, July 25, 2024, at Lakewood Baptist Church. Rev. Steve Leigh will officiate. Interment will follow at West Lawn Memorial Park Mausoleum in China Grove.

The family will receive friends from 12 to 1:00 pm Thursday at Lakewood Baptist Church.

Mrs. Donahue was born March 5, 1932 in Catawba County to the late Lee D. Robinson and Bessie Brown Robinson. She was a lifelong member of Lakewood Baptist Church in Kannapolis. Christine graduated from Lowrance School of Nursing in September 1953 and practiced nursing at Lowrance Memorial Hospital in Mooresville. She was the office manager of Donahue Floor Covering and Cabinets from 1964 until the time of her death. She had a world class green thumb and was always in her garden or flower beds. Her next love was cooking and baking for her family and she always had a pound cake or pie ready in her kitchen for anyone passing through. She was the matriarch of the Donahue family and was dearly loved and will be greatly missed.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James Leroy Donahue; sister, Ruby Jones; and two brothers, Ray and Leonard Robinson.

Mrs. Donahue is survived by three sons, Dennis James Donahue and wife Troy Ann, Tony Lynn Donahue and wife Dana, and Timothy Wayne Donahue and wife Donna, all of China Grove; brother, Clyde Robinson of West Virginia; four grandsons, Kyle and wife Ashley, Brent and wife Keely, Andrew and fiancée Kaitlyn, and Matthew and Madison; great grandchildren, Kaison, Kinley, Savannah, and Grady; and sister-in-law, Shirley.

Memorials may be sent to Lakewood Baptist Church, 806 Kluttz Street, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

Remembrances may be sent to the family online at www.ladysfuneralhome.com.

Lady's Funeral Home & Crematory is assisting the family of Mrs. Donahue.