Margaret Haner MacDonald

HANER, MACDONALD, PATTON

Posted By: Marguerite (email)
Date: 10/23/2002 at 14:44:06

Mrs. Margaret Haner MacDonald

January 16, 1912 - September 01, 2002

Margaret Haner MacDonald, 90, of 400 Foster Road died Sunday, September 1, 2002, at the Lone Tree Care Center in Lone Tree, Iowa.

Funeral Services will be held Friday, September 6, 2002 at 11AM at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Mark Martin officiating. Burial will be at Oakland Cemetery. Friends may call from 5-7PM Thursday at Lensing Funeral and Cremation Service, Iowa City and at the church after 10 AM Friday. Memorials may be directed to 4 Seasons Garden Club or the Ken MacDonald Lions Memorial Fund.

Margaret was born January 16, 1912, in Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of James Altha and Olive Patton Haner. She married Kenneth MacDonald on September 2, 1933, in Kansas City.

She was a graduate of Rosedale High School in Kansas City and Park College in Parkville, Missouri, where she had been the class agent.

She and her husband moved to Iowa City in 1936. Margaret was a secretary for Dean Kay at the University of Iowa. During World War II, she served as director of the YWCA where she counselled 500 girls. While director of the YWCA she directed many classes to guide young women through their lives. At the same time, she served as the director of the YMCA. She was instrumental in helping to develop the city manager form of government in Iowa City.

She was a charter member of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and prior to that a member of First Presbyterian Church. She was involved in the Apartment Owner’s Association, 4 Seasons Garden Club, Project Green, and a charter member of the Iowa City Craft Guild. She was active with the Johnson County Republican Women, where she had served as President.

Her husband Ken was active with the Iowa City Noon’s Lions Club, where she assisted him on many occasions, especially when he served as the District Governor. Together they helped to develop the Glaucoma Testing Program.

She is survived by one daughter, Nancy MacDonald of Iowa City; one son, Donald MacDonald and his wife, Barbara of Evergreen, Colorado; one grandson, Darin of Farmington, New York; and her sister-in-law, Geneva Schneider of Moorehead, Minnesota.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband.