DONAHUE, Doris Jean

The White Mountain Independent, Show Low, Arizona ~ 06/18/2013 Doris Jean Babcock Donahue, 73, formerly of Cass City and Bad Axe, Mich., died June 15, 2013, at her home in Hancock, Mich., after a brief illness. She was born June 16, 1940, the daughter of Zebe and Gladys Babcock of Cass City, Mich. Doris graduated from Caro High School in Caro, Mich., Saginaw Beauty Academy and the School of Medical Technology at Central Michigan Community Hospital in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. She was employed as a medical technologist in hospitals in Mt. Pleasant, Kalamazoo, South Haven, Bad Axe, Cass City, Caro and various other hospitals in Michigan and Arizona. Doris is survived by her husband, James of Hancock; children: Ayn Bishop of Florida, Susan Donahue and Jennifer Sharpe of Aptos, Calif.; son Aaron; brother Gerald of Cass City; nieces: Joddy, Sally, Sandra, Debra, Melanie and Kathryn; nephews: David, Jeffery, Kenneth, Neil, Randy and Gerald Jr.; and three grandchildren: James and Bradley Bishop and Jessica Harder. She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Wayne, George and Frank, all of Cass City, Mich.; sisters-in-law Ethel and Rosemary Babcock, grandmother Alice Nichols and several aunts and uncles. Doris and James were married April 20, 1962, in the United Methodist Church in Mt. Pleasant. During their younger years, they shared a hobby of buying and restoring old homes. Doris became a master at interior decorating. Her love for rummaging around at garage sales and in secondhand stores eventually developed into a hobby of buying and selling used items at flea markets. After buying a wood-burning cook stove for their home, James and Doris co-authored a cookbook filled with old-fashioned recipes titled “Cooking on Iron.” In 1995, James and Doris sold their home near Cass City and moved to Arizona, where they made contact with a Navajo medicine man and his wife, and spent one winter with the couple. They also became friends with a Navajo Two-Horned Priest who taught them much about the Hopi People. The couple later returned to Michigan, where they retired and moved to Hancock on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Doris discovered a talent for communicating with entities in the spirit world and made contact with The Abba Father, who made accurate prophetic predictions. The Abba Father messages became a feature in a website maintained by James.