Donna Mills

Funeral services for Donna Mills, age 73 of Columbia, will be held 10:00 AM, Wednesday, July 27, 2022, from the Columbia Chapel of Riser and Son Funeral Home with Bro. Shane Duke officiating. Bro. Bruce McGee will deliver the eulogy. Interment will follow in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery west of Columbia. The Mills Family will receive visitors on Wednesday from 9:00 AM until time of service.

Donna Lynn Dumas Mills was born on July 15, 1949, to the union of her parents, William Travis Dumas and Myrtie Moore Dumas, and she passed from this life on Sunday, July 24, 2022 at the LeGrand Rehabilitation Center in Bastrop following an extended illness.

To know Donna was to love her. She was a loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. She took amazing care of her family and loved them beyond measure. She loved to cook and read. She was a member of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her parents.

Left to cherish her memory is her husband, William Mills of Columbia; two sons, Gerry Mills (Jenny) of Lake Charles and Ty Mills (Carolyn) of Monroe; her grandchildren: John Mills, Lynlee Mills and Noah Mills; her brother, Gerald Dumas (Cherry) of Franklin, Tennessee; and her sister, Bobbye Knight of Grayson.

Serving as pallbearers will be Lee Townsend, Heath Futch, Danny Mejia, Don Johnson, John Mills and Gerald Mills.