Donna E. “Betty” Neff, 84, of Butler, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at Butler Memorial Hospital, after several years of declining health.

She was born March 5, 1940, in Chicora, a daughter of the late Frank and Mary Agnes (Black) Knoll.

A homemaker who loved gardening, her most favorite thing was her rhubarb patch! We often went to greenhouses and nurseries looking for plants and flowers to add to her flower beds.

She loved to can the produce from her garden. She also loved to bake. She truly wanted to help others. For many years, she helped her neighbors sharing the baked goods she made or just helping if they needed assistance. She loved to walk and would stop and visit people along the way.

She had a strong Catholic faith and was a longtime member of St. John Roman Catholic Church in Coylesville. She helped in the parish with cleaning, funeral dinners and tending the flower garden in the grotto on the parish grounds for several years.

Surviving are her daughter, Trudy E. Neff; one brother, Father Lester Knoll, OFM Cap.; sisters-in-law, Patricia Knoll, Antoinette Knoll, Anna Marie Knoll, Bridget Neff, Jean Neff and Jeannie Neff; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas E. Neff, whom she married July 11, 1964, and who passed away Feb. 3, 2008; an infant brother Francis; siblings, Agnes Knoll Pfaff, Mary Geibel, Rita Barnhart, Monica Glynn, Bernadette Huefner, John Knoll, Thomas Knoll, her twin brother, Donald “Ed” Knoll, and Father Charles Knoll, OFM Cap.; also numerous brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.

NEFF — Friends of Donna E. “Betty” Neff, who died Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, will be received from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, at GEIBEL FUNERAL HOME, 201 E. Cunningham St., Butler.

A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday, at St. John Roman Catholic Church, 668 Clearfield Road, Fenelton (Coylesville).

Interment will be in St. John’s Parish Cemetery.

For more information or to leave an online condolence, please visit www.geibelfuneralhome.com.

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