John T. ”Tucker” Donaldson
Age 60
John T. ”Tucker” Donaldson, 60 of Lincoln Street, Salineville, Ohio went to be with his Lord, Wednesday, December 12, 2001. He passed away at East Liverpool City Hospital following a one year illness.
He was born in Morgantown, West Virginia on July 24, 1941, the son of the late John Joseph Donaldson and Mildred Armentha Tichenor Donaldson.
Mr. Donaldson worked as a grinder at Yellow Creek Casting Company, retiring in 1991. He attended the Church of God.
He is survived by his wife, Bertha Ann Wilson Donaldson, whom he married, June 9, 1973. 5 sons; Junior Kittle of Belpre, OH, Keith A. Kittle of Salineville, OH, James ”Buzzy” Kittle of East Liverpool, OH, Eddie J. Donaldson of Salineville, OH, John T. Donaldson II of Elizabeth, W. VA. : 5 daughters, Candi Kinder of Quaker City, OH, Patty Pelly of Cleveland, OH, Belinda Wellington of East Liverpool, OH, Shiela Call of Cleveland, OH and Jeanette Kinder of Cleveland, OH; 5 brothers, Jack Eugene Donaldson of Lackawana, NY, Richard Earl Donaldson of Bob Town, PA, Donald David Donaldson of Masontown, PA, Rev. Charles E. Donaldson of Wichita Falls, TX, and Ronald Gene Donaldson of Morgantown, WV; one sister, Shirley Virginia Donaldson Richmond of Akron, OH; 30 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by 4 brothers, Leonard Duane Donaldson of Lackawana, NY, Forest Allen Donaldson of Wellsville, OH, William Dayton Donaldson of Morgantown, WV and Raymond Joseph Donaldson of Akron, OH; 2 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Services will be held at the Wellsville Chapel of the Martin-MacLean-Altmeyer Funeral Homes on Saturday, December 15, 2001 at 11:00 AM with Rev. Charles E. Donaldson, Tucker’s brother and Pastor Chad Kendall of Avondale Baptist Church in East Liverpool, Ohio, officiating.
Burial will follow in Spring Hill Cemetery.
The family will be present at the funeral home in Wellsville to receive friends on Friday, December 14, 2001 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM.
aug 6,2002
Dad it’s two day’s before my surgry
you no i have to have a stent put in my left kindney, you no i’am scared but i know you will be with me
.. it is one day before megans pagent i now you will be with the two of us so we both will do well if you have anything to do with it…you no all i do is miss you so damn much.jack and jeff is down to see mom, i went up to see them. i know they miss you to,mostley jack,he did not seem to be himself.
i know i hurt alot, but you will make my heart at ease someday, all i do is think of you becouse i love you i will get through this,becouse you and megan,rosie is all i really live for anymore. when you died my heart broke in half and all i can do is try to put it back together but my glue,tape is not holding to good. but it will, i now it takes time. I LOVE YOU DAD ALWAY’S LOVE JOHN THOMAS DONALDSON#2 I CARRY YOUR NAME PROUDLEY LOVE YOU.
DEAR,PAPPY
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU AGAIN.I MISS YOU ALOT.ROSIE STILL LOVES YOU. BYE LOVE YOU
MEGAN
happy birthday pappy and you are still speacil in my heart well i know that you are 62 and it’s pretty close to my birthday as well i love you and i will always be your grand daughter well i will be 9 jan.1 so i will be in your heart just as well as your in mine love megan.
HELLO PAPPY. I JUST WANTED TO SAY HELLO. I MISS YOU VERY MUCH. I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT I HAD A SON NAMED TYLER WILLIAM HOWARD. ONE DAY WE ALL WILL MEET AGAIN. TAKE CARE OF EVERYONE ABOVE. LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH..
Hey Pap, how are you? I miss you a whole lot. I’m just checking in to tell you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Pap:
this title of a story that I read reminds me of you
“Even Tho My Wish May Not Come True… All I Wish Is To Be With You”
Love you pap
âô¥
hey tucker. it is hard to believe that a year is almost been here. it is strange to go to your house without you here. can you believe that me n buzzy are still together. maybe someday we will get married, who knows. if that day ever comes it will be a hard one without you there. neither will my dad. but you will be in our hearts and in our minds.i only wish we got to know each other better before u had to leave us. baby john misses u so much. he is always talkin bout u.i know that there will be a day when we all will meet in heaven. i’ll see u there tucker. u are really missed in our lives. laurie and buzzy.
hi daddy just thinking about you . jim just got a computer from a friend of ricky so i have a chance to say hi. But you know how much you mean to me so i really don’t have to say any thing .my stupid truck keeps messing up wish you was here to help me fix it .imiss you so much rick says a big hello. i love you than you will ever know and miss you a bunch shiela
hi Daddy,
miss ya alot today is august 31 and i’m not to far from you i’m coming to see ya well you know what i mean
i know we had our diffences but you know i will always love you
thinking of you always love shiela
hi pap just wanted to write to you and say that i love you alot and miss you to.i can’t wait till we meet again.well pap just wanted to write to you. love you so much
grandson mark jr
Hi Pappy its megan I miss you a lot. when daddy and i went sled riding we went down the hill and when we got to the bottom we fell out but we are fine. we had fun. this year i got a glow a lot carebear.and i got a lot of strawberry shortcake stuff. i also got a video game of ms. pacman i like it daddy got pinball. he likes it i had fun this year. my birthday is in 6 days. i will be ten. i got a strawberry shortcake birthday cake. i am going bowling. i can’t wait until next year! MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR! i love you , love megan
Hi Pappy, just checking in to say hi and that i love you. âô¥ Love you and grandma Bert âô¥ Love âô¥ Megan
I am very sorry to hear of Tucker’s passing. Joey and I would have tried to make it up but we didnt know about it until this evening when my cousin called because she read it in the paper. Sorry we arent there. Joey and I send our love to all of you.
love and miss u so just want u to know we will go fishing soon dad love very much
MERRY CHRISTMAS
dad i love you and miss you you no it didnt even seam like christmas with out you here but i hope you liked your tree we put for you love all of us ,megan,rosie.,jt
P.S. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO. LOVE JOHN THOMAS DONALDSON#2
MERRY CHRISTMAS DAD
WE ALL LOVE YOU
AND WE ALL MISS YOU
LOVE ALL OF US BECOUSE
YOU NO WE ALL LOVE YOU
JOHN THOMAS DONALDSON#2
JT
pap
i just throught i would write to u to say that i miss u and love you alot.kylie turned 9 months old the other day.she has been sick but i know that u are watching over her.i know that u won’t let anything happen to her.well pap i wish you were still here so u can make me some homemade gravy.beacuse my mom does not how to make it.you are the only that knows that how to make it for me.love mark
pap
I miss you and alaway’s love and miss you. will alway’s have a part of you in my heart.
grandson
mark mills
Pap
just want to write to you and say that I love you alot.I miss you to.It is not the same at grandma house with out you there.Well i just want to write you.Well can’t wait till we all meet again.
love
mark
Pap
I love and miss you alot.May god Bless you above the heavens love
mark mills
grand son
pap hi and i misss you everyday of my life take care and i will see you soon
pap i just want to write to u and tell you to take care and i miss you alot take care of grandma and uncle don for me miss all you guys alot.well pa i have to go get a hair cut at jack whites barber shop talk to u later love mark jr
PAP I JUST WANTED TO WRITE TO YOU AND TELL YOU YOU HAVE A NEW GREAT GRANDSON KELLY HAD HER BABY SAT.KYLIE AND ALEXIA MISS YOU VERY MUCH THEY TALK SBOUT YOU ALL THE TIME WELL PAP TAKE CARE AND TALK TO YOU LATER LOVE MARK
pap well today my birthday and it is not the same with out you here.i love you and miss you alot.well i still look at the hospital and think you are still in there john miss so much.and i miss you alot to.well pap take care and i love you buddy.
pap,
Miss you and love you lot.Can’t believe you are still not here.I went to grandma house last weekend and john david talked about you the hole time.We all miss you.Well pap going to go for now talk to you later.
Can’t wait till we all meet again.
Love you
grandson mark
pap,
I just wanted to write and say I love you and miss you to.
love
mark
pap,
i miss you alot.my birthday is comming up and it anit going to be the same with out you here.we all miss you.well i am going for now pappy.
pap,
I miss you and love you alot.Just throught I would write you.
Grandson Mark
pap,
i miss you and love you alot.take care of grandma up there and uncle don.well buddy i cant wait to see you again
pap,
just throught i would write to you and say hello miss you alot and love you to.wish u where still here to she my daughter being born.going for now.
love grandson
Mark Jr.
pap,
just throught i would write to you and tell you that i love you and miss you alot.well pap.take care and god bless you
pap,
miss you and love u alot.
pap,
Miss you and love you alot.just throught i would write you again.miss you buddy.
love grandson
mark jr
pap,
well just want to write to you and tell you that i miss you and love u alot.miss you very much.well i am going for now pap
love you
mark
pap,
well just wanted to write to you and say how much i love you.we all miss you and love you alot.john david talks about you all the time.well talk to you later pap.see you on the other side.
mark
pap,
miss you alot think about you everyday.well it is monday
feb.10,2002 and i can’t still believe u are gone.love u always. can’t wait till till we meet again
pap.
just throught i would write to you to tell you that i love and miss you alot.any day now pap my daughter is going to be born.I just wish you where still here with us.well pap i am going for now talk to you later
Love grandson
Mark Jr.
pappy
miss you and love you buddy.it is wednesday feb.06.2002 and i am looking at your picture of me and you. well pappy love you alot
pappy i miss you and i wish you were here. Thanksgiving is coming soon.But i am not going to eat anything but maybe 1 slice of turkey. But i will eat a peice of pumpkin pie. i love you. LOVE, MEGAN P.S. Happy Thanksgiving
pappy i wrote you a poem in my head. it sounds like this: I love you with all my soul without you I’m nothing but a butterless roll. i know you will like that very much. love, megan p.s. happy thanksgiving
pappy,
i miss you and love you alot.it is monday july1,2002.we all miss you.i will alaway’s rember the good times we had together.i am looking at your pictures right now pappy.well going for now pappy.
pappy,
miss u and love u buddy. i can’t wait till we meet again
pappy,
i miss you and love you alot.i am looking at your pictures of me and you pappy.we all miss you alot.john david miss you too.well pappy going to go for now buddy.intill we meet again soon.
pappy,
miss you and love you alot.everyone miss you to.I wish we could have had more time together then we did but i can remember all the good times we had together why you was here with us.well pappy it is thursday march 27,2002 and i just wanted to say i love you and miss you. you are alway’s in my heart. well going to go for now love you pappy.
grandson
mark alan mills jr
wel dad it’s been awhile since i last wrote you but i have some good news i’am going to go to candi’s house and i’am going after that big buck you said you saw i only hope you help bring the big boy to me. thay finily got all my teeth out and i feel a hell of alot better , still a little sore when i eat i will probly be just like you i wont ware dentures . well mom needs to get a new roof on the house i guss the kids are going to pitch in for the cost but i hate to say it only thing i can give is the time of helping junior do it i’am as broke as broke can get i had to borrow mony from juniour to get parts for the car, and i still caint get it figured out.you no some times i could just give up on everything, seems like i can never get ahead, always going deeper in the hole if i get any deeper ill be in china. somtimes i just want to give up on life..i think the only thing that keeps me going is you. you would not give up on nothing . not even us kids , and i’am not going to give up on megan she is my pride and joy….. but you told me something and i wishi would have listened. about my visextomy. i wish i never had it done i want a little boy so bad . i’am not saying i dont want megan i love her dearly, but i want a little boy.did alot of thinking about getting it reversed or adopt, adooption cost so much. and that would not be true blood.i love and miss you,if i get that dear it will be called the tucker buck, ybecouse you saw it first……….. dad i really miss you so much.. well i no won think if the is hunting where you are you keep looking for the big ones when i get there we will go get them well dad i no megan missews you a sad song comes on the radio she cry’s for you.; we all miss and love you , i no one thing there is a big hole in my heart since you died but its full of love but it’s just not the same.i look at your picture beside my bed every night.i no you in are hearts but its just not the samei just wish i was with you.i think of you all time its really hard for mei just sit and cry for you i now you in a better place but i want to bee there to.dame dad i just wish you where hear .i love you and i always will. love you son john thomas donaldson#2 i carry that proudly
I LOVE YOU
well dad i bet you thought i would stop useing this to ezzz my mind but i will never stop unless they shut it down, well its been almost a year now, but you no me we will stay in touch some how. i love you and miss you dearly, and we know one thing for sure it will never {STOP}. one thing is for sure {MY LOVE FOR YOU} love you son john thomas donaldson#2
well dad i no you had to help me and megan during the first day of deer season. we were not in the woods 30 min and a big 8 point cam within 40 yards from us i’am glad to say it came home with us. we took the head to have it mounted. megan called it in using a deer call i’am very proud of her..and i no you are proud of the both of us .that’s the good news, you now it’s getting close to christmas,and i will get very depressed,becouse u aint here i no you will be in our hearts but its not the same,i miss you a lot and wish you were here.dad i miss you so much we are getting ready to go to moms and it hurts me so much to go there becouse you aint there anymore. you no every time i look into a mirror i see you looking back and it hurts but i’d rather see nobody else ‘ i love you . why can i say i love you so easy now, but when you were alive it was so hard.well i surpose i’ll go for now .love jt
P.S. MERRY CHRISTMAS
ROSIE AND MEGAN LOVE AND MISS YOU . WE ALL LOVE YOU DAD.
well dad i’am starting to miss you really bad again it really hits me around holidays i am sorry for not getting you flowers for memorial day
i could not get there you no how things get i hate living the way we live are family has been poor all of our lives why ? i no you did the best you could and we didnt have it to bad. i no its up to me to get my act together and get out of the slump i am in trying but really hard . i wish you were hear , megan goes into the 4th grade this coming year it just dont seem posible,well dad i love and miss you ill write you again we all love you and and we will never forget you love jt megan rosie look down on us and help all of us when you can love ya
well dad it is almost christmas and it hurts me becouse you not here but you are in my heart .love jt , megan. rosie
MERRY CHRISTMAS DAD/ PAPPY
LOVE ALL OF US
well dad it me again, well its getting real close to deer season ,just 3 weeks away. i got one buck already with 22bow 4 point,well maybe i’ll take megan this year i would really like for her to kill 12 point or bigger that would make my day. shes been doing well with computer game of hunting,she takes good care of her gun she nows how to be carefull when holding a gun.you would be really proud of her, i now i’am.you no i rember when you took me hunting way down in the bottom hauler. and you told me to go up the outher hill and i shoot that big groundhog. and you thought i killed a deer. i reamber well and i know you do to.megan got all A’s on her report card, i wish i could have gotton A’s. i wish you were here to go hunting with us.i really miss you megan misses you too,hell we all do.i see your picture in my mind all the time,megan has 6 awards from school and 1 from her beauty pagent.well dad i really just wanted to say i love you and miss you i wish you were hear. dad i love you. i will chairous all of are memories together……. hugs & kisses from all of us…loves from megan………………….
well dad it’s been awhile but i no you get tired of hearing my troubles so i not going to share them with you, tonight.i havent talked to mom in a while, but i hope we can still take that fishing trip some day. i miss you alot i play horeshoes with the ones you gave me when i play alone it seems like you are there playing with me getting sleepy so i going to stop now i love you love
john thomas donaldson#2