Donna Mae Feulner Hulet

1932 – 2024

Donna Mae Feulner Hulet passed from this life to the next on January 4, 2024, at the age of 91. We will miss our matriarch’s loyalty to family, faith in the gospel, talented violin-playing, green thumb and encyclopedic knowledge of flowers, high and precise expectations, and her inexhaustible dedication to “accomplishing things.” We take comfort knowing that she rejoins her beloved husband, Clarence Hulet, who has waited for her patiently over the last 8 years.

Born on July 9, 1932, in Hunter, Utah, Donna Mae grew up helping her parents, Emil and Irene Feulner, with the family farm and orchards. She learned how to drive a tractor when she was 11 years old, describing the clutch as “tricky,” and spent falls picking, selling, and canning fruit. At age 9, she started violin lessons using the violin her father had brought from Germany when he immigrated to the US. She also taught herself to play piano, sewed blue-ribbon-winning outfits for 4-H, attended Girl’s State, and was editor of her high school’s award-winning yearbook.

She earned a scholarship to attend BYU, where she played violin in the orchestra. A meticulous record-keeper, Donna Mae counted 205 musical programs she had performed in by the time she left BYU. On her first day as a freshman in the fall of 1950, she serendipitously bumped into Clarence Hulet, who she had met that summer while visiting friends in Idaho. They married on June 2, 1952, and honeymooned on their cross-country drive to Madison, Wisconsin, where Clarence began graduate school.

Clarence’s career took their growing family from Wisconsin to Idaho, and later to New Zealand and New Mexico. During that time, Donna Mae served in various Church callings, including Relief Society president on multiple occasions, all while raising eight children.

After retirement, Clarence and Donna Mae relocated to Spanish Fork, Utah, where they hosted family reunions and cared for a beautiful yard and garden. They served a Church mission in England and Wales, and Donna Mae hesitantly, but proudly, learned to drive on the wrong side of the road. When Clarence was diagnosed with Alzheimers, Donna Mae tenderly cared for him until his death in 2015. Donna Mae then moved to Alpine, Utah, and was grateful for the support her daughter Diana lovingly provided by living with her.

A few weeks before her death, Donna Mae asked for help renewing her passport-she hoped to visit someplace new. We trust that she has reunited with her eternal travel companion and that they are busy–as busy as always–planning for and embarking on their next adventure.

Donna Mae is survived by her 8 children, Ladell (Randy) Muhlestein, Brian (Debbie), Diana (Quinn) Jacobson, Kelvin (Carol), Sherilyn (Kimber) Johnson, Lynn (Tanya), Glade (Sherry), Kendall (Carolina Núñez); brother, Norman, and sister, June Krambule; 41 grandchildren, 59 (soon to be 62) great grandchildren. She joins her husband, Clarence, her parents Emil and Irene, and her siblings Marian, Milton, Stanley, and Marlene.

A service will be held Mon., 22 Jan. at 1:30 p.m. in the Canyon Ward chapel, 3477 E River Bottoms Rd, Spanish Fork, Utah with a viewing from 12:30-1:15 p.m. Interment will be at the Spanish Fork Cemetery.