Donna Jean Gorski

Gorski, Donna Jean (nee Thompson),
Journalist, wife, mother, grandmother, author and composer, born December 29, 1932, Wauwatosa, WI, died January 11, 2017, Wauwatosa, WI from advanced pancreatic cancer. She composed the music and lyrics of the lullaby “Dreamland Train”, and wrote the children’s book, “The Adventures Of Buzzy Bee”, as well as short stories “The Door To Summer” and “Mortimer’s Mistake”, among numerous other fiction and non-fiction works.
She is survived by five sons and eight grandchildren: David John Gorski (Mary Campbell); Timothy Noel Gorski, MD (Deborah Boak) and their five children, Genevieve Hypatia Boak, Imogene Lucretia Boak, Esq., Franklin Timothy Gorski, Adelaide Deborah Boak, and Frederick Timothy Gorski; Cptn. Richard Wayne Gorski; Keith Alan (Gorski), Esq. (Tami Kim) and their three children Naomi Eunhasoo Alan, Marina Mujigae Alan and Kendrick Roger Alan; and Jerold Matthew Gorski, Esq. (Pamela Wang). She is preceded in death by her husband of 31 years, Roger John Gorski (born January 14, 1927, deceased June 16, 1988), her father Eustace Thompson, mother Adelia Thompson (Schuelke), and brother William Thompson.
In 1951 she graduated from Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, WI, and from 1950 to 1952 she attended University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she majored in journalism and was a member of Delta Phi Delta sorority. Her application for membership in Daughters Of The American Revolution was pending as of the date of her death. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made in Donna’s memory to the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and/or the Hemlock Society.