Biography
Donald Dean Mumford was born in Lawrence, Kansas on 9 February 1954, to Robert Herman and Mildred Elisabeth Brown Mumford. He had two brothers, Dale Mumford and John Mumford. He attended Lawrence public schools and Lawrence High School. He attended Mount Hood Junior College in Portland, Oregon.
At the time of his passing, Mumford was a resident of Des Moines, Iowa. He was struck by an automobile while riding a bicycle in Ames, Iowa. He was taken to the Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, where he died on 6 July. He was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Lawrence after a 12 July memorial service in Lawrence.
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