lit a candle 1d agoI saw this come through and I genuinely don't know what to say, never heard of her before today but ninety one years in one county is its own kind of life.
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Donna M. (Goyings) Pieper was a longtime resident of Paulding, Ohio, who died on November 2, 2026, at the age of 90 or 91, according to an obituary notice published in the Paulding Progress with the dates "1935 to 2026." She was not a public figure in the national sense.…
Donna M. (Goyings) Pieper was a longtime resident of Paulding, Ohio, who died on November 2, 2026, at the age of 90 or 91, according to an obituary notice published in the Paulding Progress with the dates "1935 to 2026." She was not a public figure in the national sense. Her life was rooted in the small, close knit farming community of Paulding County in northwestern Ohio, where she was known within her family and neighborhood rather than through any wider public career.
Donna was born Donna M. Goyings in 1935. Her exact birth date and the names of her parents have not been published in any source available at this writing. She came from the Goyings family of Paulding County, a name well known locally through generations of farming families in the area. Her brother, Ray Goyings, farmed in the Paulding area for much of his life and died in 2024, with Donna listed among his surviving siblings in his obituary.
Donna married Oscar F. Pieper, a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War who later became the owner of Pieper's Gun Shop in Paulding and worked for years as a licensed gunsmith and firearms safety, trap shooting and hunting instructor. Oscar Pieper died on September 3, 2004, at the age of 75, and his obituary at the time listed his wife as "Donna M. (Goyings) Pieper of Paulding," confirming the couple's long marriage. Together they raised three sons, Fred Pieper and Jeff Pieper, both of Paulding, and Tim Pieper of nearby Cecil, Ohio, along with grandchildren and at least one great grandchild as of 2004.
No detailed public biography of Donna Pieper's own working life, education or community activities has been located. Obituaries of this kind, published by small town newspapers such as the Paulding Progress, are typically written by the family and focus on survivors and arrangements rather than a full life story, and no fuller account of her has yet surfaced in searchable records.
Donna M. (Goyings) Pieper died on November 2, 2026. The cause of her death has not been made public. Funeral arrangements, if announced, had not been located in available reports at the time of writing, and this page will be updated as more information becomes available.
Biography adapted from News reports and the sources cited on this page; death reported by Legacy | Obituary.
