Carol Frances Donelan
(nee Luke) Passed away peacefully on Monday, March 25, 2024. Beloved wife of 46 years of the late Patrick Michael Donelan; loving mother of Sean Donelan, Elizabeth “Beth” (John) Larkin, Ellen “Lacey” (Matt) O’Brien, and Catherine “Cici” (Jeff) Faucher; dear daughter of the late Charles and Ruth (nee Cunliff) Luke; dear grandmother of Sarah (Andrew) Leone and Emily (Ryan) Rittenhouse, Maggie (Seamus) Dolnick, Patrick and Molly O’Brien, and Christina, Andrew (Dakotah), Colleen and Amie Faucher; and dear great-grandmother to Caroline, Haley, and Hope.
Carol loved nature and sharing her love for the church with all those around her. Her smile lit up every room she would visit with love and laughter. She adored traveling with her family and anyone who would share in the joy. She traveled to all 50 states, 6 of the 7 continents, and the Holy Land three times, as well as countless explorations. She grew up backstage at the Muny, developing a life-long love of the theater. She is a graduate of St. Joseph’s Academy and St. Louis University and earned her Master of Library Science from the University of Illinois. She spent many years volunteering at the Missouri Botanical Garden and Basilica of St. Louis. She had a love of reading and being a librarian, needlepointing, theatre, gardening, and the joys of life.
Services: Visitation and funeral Mass will be held Wednesday, March 27 at Church of the Annunziata, 9305 Clayton Road, Ladue. Visitation at 9 a.m. with the Mass to follow at 10 a.m. Private interment. Visitors are asked to wear their brightest and best florals to help celebrate Carol’s life. Contributions to The Muny or the Missouri Botanical Garden are appreciated.
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Patricia Rice Hellmuth says
April 1, 2024 at 5:43 pmSo sorry for your loss of your loving fun mother. Sorry that just found out your sad news on Easter so I missed her funeral Mass. Missed it with was not time for a PD Sunday paper announcement. Ironic since Carol such a warm and great hostess had gatherings after others’ funerals.
I last lunched with your wonderful mother the Christmas before the Pandemic when she was so worried that her move to her new community would prevent her from seeing friends in her old neighborhood and weekly at the Wednesday Club. She was a magnet for a fun lunch table. I cherish happy memories of great parties your parents gave in the 1960s and 1970s. Her volunteer work at the cathedral, and gatherings when Patrick and I served on Regional Arts Commission provided more glowing occasions.
Steve Landau says
March 29, 2024 at 7:57 pmOur thoughts and prayers to the family and friends. With love.
Carlos Moran says
March 27, 2024 at 8:42 pmSo sorry for your loss Donelan family. My thoughts and prayers are with you – wishing you all of God’s Blessings during this time. May He hold your hands and comfort you until you are reunited in Heaven.
Christi says
March 25, 2024 at 11:46 pmI’m sorry for your loss.