Donna Mason, 58, of Grinnell, Iowa and formerly of Springfield died Thursday, June 9, 2005, at Grinnell Regional Medical Center of lung complications. Services and burial will be held at a later date at the Atkinson, Nebraska cemetery. Memorial contributions may be directed to the Donna Mason Memorial Fund and sent in care of; Smith Funeral Home, P.O. Box 368, Grinnell, Iowa 50112. The daughter of Rena Riley Smith, she was born September 6, 1946, in Atkinson, Nebraska. She was raised in Atkinson and was a 1964 graduate of Atkinson High School. In the mid 1960's she was married to James Kounovsky and the couple later divorced. She had made her home in Chicago, Bell Gardens, California, and later Des Moines, Iowa. While in Des Moines she was employed as a manager at a local Kwik Shop. She moved to Springfield in the early 1990's and operated a Huck's Convenience Store until her retirement, due to poor health, in 2004, and then moved to Grinnell to be close to her family. Survivors include one son, James Kounovsky of Jacksonville, Illinois; one grandson, James Kounovsky of Springfield; three sisters and their spouses, Jean and Cecil Henderson of Montezuma, Iowa, Diane and Brett Burress of Cody, Nebraska, and Betty and Clem Disterhaupt Atkinson, Nebraska; and one brother, Jack Smith of Chouteau, Oklahoma.