Donna Simcoe

Donna R. (LaBrie) Simcoe passed away on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025 in Princeton, N.J.
Donna Rochelle (LaBrie) Simcoe was born June 27, 1943 in Hastings to Glenn and Lurye (Rader) LaBrie. She grew up in rural Giltner. She attended Giltner Public Schools until her senior year. She attended Assumption Academy in Norfolk where she graduated in 1961 as the valedictorian of her class. 
Donna spent several years working as nurses’ aide in Hastings. She also worked in Grand Island at Northwestern Bell Telephone Company for a few years and then transferred to Omaha’s NW Bell Crown Operator Services location. She met her future husband, Don Simcoe, in Omaha. Don, Donna, and her daughter Aimee moved to Schaumberg, Ill. until Don was transferred to Dunedin, Fla. They loved to travel all over the states and overseas. They lived in Dunedin until Don passed away in 2013. 
Donna was an avid reader, a great cook and hostess, and a very talented seamstress. She was a prize-winning quilter. She won the Betty Crocker Homemaker Award in high school and lived up to that standard her whole life.
After Don passed away Donna moved to Philadelphian to be near Aimee. She followed Aimee’s family to New Jersey where they had many good times together.
Those left to cherish her memory are her daughter Aimee, son-in-law Dan Fernandez and Luke, her grandson, her brothers Robert LaBrie of Doniphan, Thomas (Parma) LaBrie of Grand Island, Timothy (Lori) LaBrie of Minden, Francis (Lea) LaBrie of Hastings, and Jeffrey (Sharlene) LaBrie of Omaha, her sister JoAnne (Thomas) Lambert of Giltner, sister-in-law Toni LaBrie of Giltner, and brother-in-law Loren Baxa of North Platte, and many nieces and nephews.
Donna was preceded in death by her husband Donald Lee Simcoe, her parents Glenn and Lurye LaBrie, her sister Margaret Baxa, her brothers David and Richard LaBrie, sisters-in-law Carol LaBrie and Sandy LaBrie, and nephews Bartt LaBrie and Elliot Lambert.
A rosary for Donna will be on March 19 at 7 p.m. at St Ann’s Catholic Church in Doniphan and Mass for Christian Burial will be officiated by Father David Oldham at St Ann’s Catholic Church in Doniphan on March 20, 2026 at 10:30 a.m., followed by burial at Cedarview Cemetery, Doniphan.