She died on December 30, 2010, aged 85, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.

[3] On her farewell tour, she starred in a production of Peter Pan, making her entrance flying above the audience.

[1] Donna Atwood retired from the role of lead skater in 1956 at age 31, moving into a custom-built Beverly Hills home complete with a piano that folded into the wall.

[1][4][5] She made a single television appearance in 1961 as Phyllis Merrill in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Renegade Refugee."

Donna never remarried, eventually moving to Marina del Rey and Palm Desert, California.