Donna Mae Rolo, age 80, passed away at her home in Ransom, Kansas on September 21, 2015. She was born on October 12, 1934 in Fairmont, Nebraska the daughter of Ruben and Rose (Ackerman) Sell.

She was a homemaker and cook at the Derrick Inn Restaurant. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Ness City and was the #1 Fan of the Kansas City Royals and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. She was baptized at the Hope Reform Church in Sutton, Nebraska where she was later to be married.

On November 17, 1955 she married Wilbur “Willie” Rolo in Sutton, Nebraska. He preceded her in death on February 22, 1975. Donna and Willie moved from Hanston to Ness City in 1972 where they raised their nine children. Donna moved to Ransom in 2014.

Donna is survived by her four sons, Bruce and Jill, Tescott, Gary and his fiancé, Melissa Vrbas, Ness City, Gregory and Sherry, Great Bend, and Rudy and Rhonda, Bazine; five daughters, Sharon Fuhr, Pratt, Shirley Crownover, Hutchinson, Brenda and Chris Krueger, Great Bend, Rose Jones, McCracken, and Debra and Smokey Fairbank, Ransom; her sister, Eleanor Jarrett, Hanston; 24 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband; brother, LaVerne Sell; two grandsons, Skyler Jones and Josh Stieben; and a daughter-in-law, Joni Rolo.

The funeral service will be on Saturday, September 26, 2015, 10:30 A.M. at the United Methodist Church, Ness City with burial in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Zook, Kansas. Friends may call at Fitzgerald Funeral Home on Thursday from 10:00 A.M. until 9:00 P.M. and Friday from 9:00 A.M. until 9:00 P.M. with the family present on Friday from 6-8 P.M.

Memorial contributions may be given to the Donna Rolo Memorial Fund.