I'm Riding For

Donna Van Houten Nauss

Donna was a lifelong friend, though there were many years we lost touch, I've known Donna since the late 1970s, and in early 2009 I received a friend request on Facebook from Donna. Technology brought us back together, she came out to visit me in Arizona that summer, and through the years since when I'd go back to visit family in New York, we'd spend some time together catching up with each other's lives. I took this picture of Donna when she was out visiting me in Arizona in July 2009. Donna lost her battle with cancer in September 2016, it's been over 7 years since she's been gone. This September I'll be riding riding in her memory. After we reconnected, she was there for me and my family when me dad pased away in 2013, mom in 2015 and my older brother in 2016, even though in the last year of her life she was dealing with cancer, she came to my older brothers funeral, she also was there for my parents. I miss you Donna, thanks for being there for me and my family.