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Friday, October 13, 2017
Melissa Siegner
Age: 51
City: Coralville
Funeral Date
11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, Lensing's Oak Hill, Coralville
Funeral Home
Lensing's Oak Hill, Coralville
Friday, October 13, 2017
Melissa Siegner
MELISSA ANNE (DONOHUE) SIEGNER
Coralville
Melissa Anne (Donohue) Siegner, 51, of Coralville, passed away peacefully after an extended illness at Mercy Hospice of Iowa City on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. A funeral to celebrate Melissa's life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at Lensing's Oak Hill, 210 Holiday Rd. in Coralville. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to service time.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to Mercy Hospice of Mercy Iowa City.
Melissa was born Sept. 2, 1966, in Chesterfield, Mo., the daughter of Robert Edward Donohue and Pamela Kay Davis. She grew up in Chesterfield and attended St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis. She went on to attend the University of Kansas (where she was a Kappa Kappa Gamma) and later graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago. Melissa worked for LaSalle Bank in Chicago and later worked for numerous companies in the insurance industry.
Melissa was a fantastic cook. She loved gardening, traveling (especially to Florida), going to St. Louis Cardinals baseball games and rooting for the Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago Bears. She also enjoyed canoeing and kayaking.
She will be dearly missed.
Survivors include her husband, Peter Siegner of Coralville; son, Michael (Jenae) Siegner, and their children of Grimes; daughter, Angela (Andrew) Love, and their children of Cheyenne, Wyo.; father, Robert (Genevieve) Donohue of Chesterfield; mother, Pamela Lupinacci of Coralville; two brothers, John Patrick Donohue of St. Louis, Mo., and David Christopher Donohue of Sedona, Ariz.; mother-in-law, Joyce Siegner of Vail, Iowa; nine brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Cathy, Judy, Cindy, Mary, Monica, Joe, John, Paul and Betsy; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Melissa was preceded in death by her brother, Robert Donohue Jr.; father-in-law, James Siegner; and sister-in-law, Gemma.
Condolences may be left for the family at www.lensingfuneral.com.