After a two-year battle with complications following a double lung transplant, Heaven welcomed home one of the Lord’s most valiant warriors.
On Friday, February 13, 2026, with his loving family at his bedside at UCSF Hospital in San Francisco, Donald Lynn Stafford peacefully slipped from this mortal life and stepped beyond the veil.
Don was born on February 5, 1960, in Gridley, Butte County, California, to William Mitford Stafford and Shirley Lucille Mitchell Stafford. He was the fourth of six children and was raised in Gridley, where he attended local schools and worked at Safeway while completing his education. He graduated from Gridley High School in 1978…