Mary Ellen Donaldson Price age 60, of Wausau, Wisconsin, formerly of Mount Vernon, Ohio, passed away Saturday, September 14, 2024. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 18, 1963, to the late Timothy and Patricia (Lloyd) Donaldson, Sr.
Mary was a 1982 graduate of Mount Vernon High School, Mount Vernon, Ohio. After high school, Mary moved to Janesville, Wisconsin to be with her mother. While there she met the love of her life, Mike Studt. Mary returned to Mount Vernon several years later. She settled in by buying a farm outside of Gambier, Ohio where she lived with her dogs Loretta and Dick as well as her many cats, horses, goats and chickens. She mothered two young ladies, Mary and Frieda. Giving them a home, helping them with their education, drivers licenses, finding work and helping them to assimilate into an English life.
Mary, always the adventurous one, decided to sell things and pack up and moved to North
Carolina. She lived in a house on the backside of Camp Lejeune for a year before finding a
camper on the beach in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. Mary always wanted to travel to Australia, one evening she met a man, Graham, online from down under. They struck up a friendship. She traveled to Australia to visit him and his family and had the time of her life.
She very much loved her life in North Carolina, fishing, new friends and walking her dogs on the beach. Like other members of her family, Mary, dealt with kidney disease, during a hospital stay she looked on facebook to find the love of her life. He wasn’t there before but that day he was. After lengthy phone calls and FaceTime. Mike came to live with her. Because he had family in Wisconsin, they soon moved there. Mary didn’t really like the cold weather, but it didn’t matter if she had Mike. Mike came with a little something extra too, his daughter, Sammie. Mary finally had a little one to dote over. She was so very happy.
Mary, in addition to her parents, is preceded in death by her brother Timothy “Bo” Donaldson, Jr.
She is survived by Mike Studt, who stood by her to the very end, his daughter, Sammie, cousins and a host of friends as well as Loretta and Dick her canine cohorts. If you were honored to know Mary, you were her friend.
She had the greatest sense of humor and could always make a person laugh. If you were with her, you were have a good time.
A special memorial service will be held for her at a later date. In her honor, smile at a stranger, make someone laugh who is sad and always enjoy the people you are with tomorrow is not guaranteed.