Donna M. Bruno, of Crystal Lake; Former Teacher at CL South, Thunderbird

Donna M. Bruno, of Crystal Lake, died May 6, 2013 at the Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.

She was born in Chicago the daughter of Glenn and Frances Cohn.

She married her husband William V. Bruno on June 20, 1970, at St. Monica Catholic Church in Carpentersville.

Donna was the office manager at the Hode Group Inc., following a teaching career at Crystal Lake South High School and the Thunderbird Pre-School.

She was a “volunteer,” giving freely of her time to many events and activities at St. Thomas the Apostle Church as well as helping as a substitute teacher at St. Thomas the Apostle School.

She was also a Little League Mom helping to keep the team’s scores and team statistics. After Little League, Donna graduated to the CABA and was very active in raising funds for the Continental Amateur Baseball Association.

With all of the time she spent serving as a volunteer she was still able to spend quality time with her favorite past time, her children and grandchildren.

She is survived by her husband, William; her two sons Jason (Heather) and Anthony (fiancée Jennifer); her grandchildren Eli and Nicholas; her mother Frances Vinck; two brothers Rob (Sylvia) Cohn and Dennis (Cheryl) Cohn; and two sisters Valerie (Don) Schmidt, Denise Salcedo, and a sister in law Pam Cohn.

Donna was preceded in death by her father, Glenn Cohn, and a brother, Steve Cohn.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at the Skaja Bachmann Funeral Home, 7715 W. Route 14, Crystal Lake.

Funeral service will be Wednesday, May 15, from the funeral home to St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 451 W. Route 176, for Mass at 10 a.m.

Interment will be at Windridge Memorial Park.

More information is available at 815-455-2233