Donna Tester
Donna Tester

Obituary of Donna L. Tester

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Mrs. Donna Gay Lunsford Tester, age 46, of Elk Creek Road, Deep Gap, died Tuesday morning, August 11, 2009 at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. She was born October 10, 1962 in Watauga County to Bruce James Lunsford, Sr. and Sudie Gray Ford Lunsford. Donna was a member of Mt. Ephraim Baptist Church and was a homemaker. Survivors include; her husband, James Walter Tester of the home; one brother, Bruce James Lunsford, Jr. and wife Donna, of Deep Gap; and a second mother to Meleah Wardrup of Hendersonville, and Emmet, Thomas and Jeffrey Lunsford, all of Deep Gap and her great-nieces, Keoni Ranee and Lily Sharon Wardrup, both of Hendersonville. Several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins also survive. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by an infant sister. Memorial services will be conducted Friday evening, August 14th at 7 o'clock at the Austin & Barnes Funeral Home Chapel. The family will receive friends Friday evening from 5:30 until 7 o'clock, prior to services at Austin and Barnes. Memorials may be made to the Tester family. Online condolences for the family may be sent to austinandbarnesfuneralhome.com. Austin & Barnes Funeral Home and Crematory is serving the Tester family.