McDonald, Lloyd E. 1919-2003

MCDONALD, ALDERSON, JOHNSON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 3/20/2009 at 16:09:37

KINGSLEY, Iowa -- Lloyd E. McDonald, 84, of Kingsley died Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 1:30 p.m. today at United Methodist Church in Kingsley, with the Rev. Paul Evans officiating. Burial will be in Kingsley Cemetery, with military rites conducted by American Legion Nash Post 140 of Kingsley. Arrangements are being handled by Rohde-Earnest Funeral Home in Kingsley.

Lloyd was born Sept. 15, 1919, the son of John and Bertha (Alderson) McDonald at Belden, Neb. The family later moved to rural Randolph, Neb., where Lloyd attended rural school. In 1927 the family moved to Chadron, Neb., where they lived on a ranch for three years. In 1930 they moved back to Belden, where Lloyd attended school and graduated in 1936.

On Jan. 17, 1942, he married LaVone Johnson. After that, on May 22, 1942, he was inducted into the U.S. Army. He was stationed in several camps in the U.S. and was sent into action in the European Theatre in June 1944. He participated in four battles before returning home in October 1945. Among those battles he fought was the battle for Bastogne for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.

After the war, he and his wife LaVone returned to Belden, where he started a grocery store and a meat locker plant. He sold his locker plant in 1958 and purchased Collins Locker Plant in Kingsley, which he operated until he sold it in 1978. After his retirement, he spent time at the lake home which he and LaVone owned in Minnesota.

He was a member of United Methodist Church and American Legion Nash Post 140 of Kingsley.

Survivors include his wife, LaVone of Kingsley; three daughters, Judy Bainbridge and her husband, Tom of Holstein, Iowa, Jill Bakken and her husband, Loy of Sioux City, and Jaine Stubbs and her husband, Denis of Moville, Iowa; a son, Jerry McDonald and his wife, Cheryl of Aurora, Colo.; five grandchildren, Tracy Bainbridge of Milwaukee, Wis., Timi Wunschel and her husband, Roger of Ida Grove, Iowa, Blake Stubbs and Lacey Stubbs, both of Moville, and Donna McDonald of Aurora; and three great-grandchildren, Nickalaus, Keller and Wyatt Wunschel.

Preceding Lloyd in death were his parents; three brothers; six sisters; a grandson, Tate Bainbridge; and a great-grandson, Seth Wunschel.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal
~Part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection