Donna Jean Camarata

Donna Jean Camarata, 56, of Cedar Falls, died Thursday, December 12, 2019. She was born in Waterloo, Iowa on May 22, 1963, the daughter of Warren F. & Helen R. (Maas) Thomas.   She graduated from Cedar Falls High School in 1981 and from Hawkeye Community College in 1982. She married Larry Camarata on June 2, 1984 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls. Donna was a Certified Respiratory Therapist at Sartori Memorial Hospital from 1982 to 1985 and at Chandler Memorial Hospital in Chandler, Arizona from 1986 to 1992. She was the Cardiopulmonary Manager at Sartori from 1995 to 2000 and then at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo from 2000 to 2003. Donna has been a RPSGT/Registered Sleep Technologist at the Covenant Sleep Center since 2003. She was Vice President of the Iowa Sleep Society and served on the Board of Registered Polysomnography Technologists.

Survivors include her husband, Larry Camarata of Cedar Falls; two daughters, Julie (Jesse) Meyer of Cedar Falls and Jenny (Jordan) Padgett of Norwalk, Iowa; five grandchildren, Zaiah, Gunner, Payson and Hattie Meyer and Maya Padgett; two brothers, John (Eser Toluney) Thomas of Potomac, Maryland and Daniel Thomas of Centerline, Michigan; and two sisters, Ruth Bennett of Auburn, Georgia and Carol Potter of Phoenix, Arizona.

Donna was preceded in death by her parents.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, December 30, 2019 at St. John Lutheran Church with burial in Greenwood Cemetery.  Visitation will be from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home and one hour prior to service time at the church.

Memorials may be directed to the family to benefit the Humane Society and Border Collie Rescue. Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.  Online condolences may be left at www.DahlFuneralHome.com