Her obituary in the Morehead News reported “Donna Joyce Mabry Smedley, age 50, of Open Fork Road, Morehead, Kentucky, was born December 29, 1959, in Columbus, Ohio, and passed away Sunday, May 16, 2010, at her residence.

    Donna is survived by her father, Omer A. Mabry and his wife Guyan Sloan Mabry of Morehead, Kentucky; her mother, Maxine Adkins Scott of Dayton, Ohio; two sisters, Judy Diane Winkle and husband Terry and Shawna Mabry Blundell and husband Shane, all of Morehead, Kentucky; three brothers, Wayne Mabry of Clearfield, Kentucky, Thomas Allen Mabry of Morehead, Kentucky, and Marvin Mabry of Johnson County, Kentucky; seven nieces and nephews; and three great nieces and nephews.

    Donna was a former employee of Cowden Mfg. Company and Case’s in Olive Hill, Kentucky, and loved crocheting and singing hymns. She was a member of the Church of God.  

    Funeral services will be conducted 3 p.m. Thursday, May 20, 2010, at Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals Memorial Chapel with Brother Don Rivers officiating. Burial will follow in the Nickell Cemetery on KY 173.

    Pallbearers will be Chris Petit, Shane Blundell, Derrick Rivers, Wayne Mabry, Allen Mabry, and Marvin Mabry.”

From the Lexington Channel 18 News website posted 17 May 2010:

“Neighbors say 50-year-old Donna Smedley of the Haldeman community in Rowan County died in a trailer fire Sunday morning.
The fire happened sometime in the early morning hours. The Haldeman Volunteer Fire Department says by the time they received the call and arrived at the trailer it was already burned to the ground.
Neighbor Vicki Rivers says Smedley will be greatly missed.
"Donna was a very sweet person, very thoughtful, very sweet Christian lady, always there for everybody," said Rivers.
Kentucky State Police arson investigators will go to the trailer tomorrow to try to determine the cause of the fire. The body is being sent to the medical examiner's office in Frankfort for positive identification.”