Donna Mae

Sitts Axe

A flower from our garden has been taken out to grow,
Where light and love are perfect; more joy than we could know.
Look up and still remember, within a garden fair,
We gave a flower to blossom, into his loving care.
– Author unknown

Donna Mae Sitts Axe, 85, of Sweetwater passed away Sunday, January 26, 2025 at Lyndale Abilene
Memory Care. She was born May 7, 1939 in Beetown, Wisconsin to Alvin and Leona (Pickle) Wentz.
Donna married Raymond Sitts on January 22, 1957 in Burton, Wisconsin, he then passed away March
12, 1995. Donna moved to Sweetwater in 1982 and worked for Walls industries as a seamstress and
was a member of the Highland Heights United Methodist Church.

She had a passion for giving back and helping others by volunteering at the women's resource center
and working as a home health aide. She was an avid reader and gardener. She had a massive flower
garden and pond. She also tended to the church rose garden and later brought the rest of the
landscape at the church to life with her gardening skills. The church was where she met and later
married Mac Axe, on May 6, 2006 in Sweetwater and he passed away October 11, 2015.

Donna also was an incredibly talented painter. She created beautiful murals on walls in the church , in
her home, and on ceramic pottery. She was a part of a China painting club where she taught the class
and also learned from others. She also submitted some of her pieces to the Taylor County Fair and she
won a variety of ribbons over years from her painted ceramic submissions.

She is survived by her children: Donita Achenbach and husband Loren of Sweetwater and Michael Sitts
and wife Marlene of Breckenridge. Texas, her brother: Ronnie Wentz and wife Sylvia of Dickeyville,
Wisconsin, sister: Barbara Bond of Beetown, Wisconsin, son-in-law: Mark Pierce of Cherokee, Iowa, 5
grandchildren: Ben Achenbach and wife Cory, Michelle Page and husband Jam, Melanie Whitley and
husband Jamie, Melissa Russell and husband Andy, Amanda Dickerson and partner Patrick and 10
great-grandchildren: Blake and Preston Cambell, Michael and Ryan Page, Maddie, Hannah, and Abby
Russell, Devon Achenbach, and Jake and Luke Whitley. Donna is preceded in death by her parents
Alvin and Leona Wentz, her brother Edward Wentz, her husbands Raymond Sitts and Mac Axe, and
her daughter Pamela Pierce.

Pallbearers will be her grandson Ben Achenbach, and great grandsons Devon Achenbach, Michael
Page, Ryan Page, Blake Campbell and Preston Campbell.

Funeral services will be at 2:00 pm on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at Highland Heights United
Methodist Church with Rev. Larry Holder officiating. A family and friend's visitation will be at 10:00am
Saturday at the church. Interment will follow the funeral at Sweetwater Cemetery under the direction of
McCoy Funeral Home.

A special "Thank You" to the employees of Hoyt Place, Lyndale Abilene Memory Care and Interim
Healthcare Hospice of Abilene for all the loving care given to Donna. Memorials may be made to
Highland Heights United Methodist Church in Sweetwater or to Interim Healthcare Hospice of Abilene.