| Hughes, Arkansas School Faculty Memorial |
| Donna Kay (Baldwin) Coalter June 19, 1930 – June 27, 2006 Elementary (Sixth Grade) Tenure: 1955 |
| Services for Donna Kay Coalter, 76, of Horseshoe Bay, Texas were held at 2:30 p.m. on June 30, 2006 at the Church at Horseshoe Bay in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. Pastor Peter K. Christy officiated at the services. Mrs. Coalter died June 27. Mrs. Coalter was born on June 19, 1930 in Memphis, Tenn. to Haskel Ray Baldwin and Sable Bankston Baldwin. She grew up in Dundee, Miss. with her older sister, Mary Stanley. She attended elementary school in Dundee and went to high school at Tunica County High School. During her high school years, she was a cheerleader and participated in a broad range of extracurricular activities. After graduation from high school in 1948, she continued her education at Mississippi State College for Women and graduated in 1952 with a B.S. in Biology with a minor in education. Mrs. Coalter married Lewis Franklin Coalter Jr. in August of 1952 and joined him for a lifetime journey that would take them to many places. Their union produced two children and four grandchildren. Along the way, she would teach school in Dundee and Lake Cormorant and Hughes, Ark., where her husband managed a cotton plantation. Then, corporate life beckoned and the journey began that would take them to many diverse cities and a number of different assignments all across the country and finally to Horseshoe Bay. During that journey,the Coalters would be charter members of four new Methodist churches and the Church at Horseshoe Bay. Throughout the years, when her husband was traveling, Mrs. Coalter was the strong center for her family, building new nests and finding new friends wherever she went. She had the talent of establishing strong bonds with close friends that would last a lifetime. Mrs. Coalter loved to travel and explore. When she lived in California, she became an expert on the location of wineries and developed a number of special tours for friends when they came to visit. Every vacation was also an adventure full of vistas and a little learning on the side and she never lost her love of nature, shopping or doin’ lunch. Mrs. Coalter suffered severe head injuries in an automobile accident in 1986 from which she never fully recovered. Her indomitable spirit and determination never led to complaints, she never gave up. The onset of Huntington’s disease late in her life finally called her home to Heaven after a long and debilitating battle. Her family could not have made it without the help and love of her caregivers, Dottie Nadeau, Diana Penales, Nina MacMullin, Amy Keil and Debbie Williams. Mrs. Coalter is survived by her loving husband of 53 years, Lewis Franklin Coalter Jr.; her children, Juliann Pool and husband Michael of Austin, Texas and Lewis Franklin Coalter, III (Jacki) Plano, Texas; grandchildren; Jaime Michael Pool and Jessica Layne Pool, both of Austin, Texas, and Lewis Franklin Cody Coalter IV and Jennifer Nicole Coalter, both of Plano, Texas; brother in law John Willis Coalter (Janet) of Brandon, Miss. and sister in law Lillian Cole (Marion) of Marion, AR, as well as many nieces, nephews and close friends. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Mary Stanley Baldwin |