McDonald, Elmer 1911-1966

MCDONALD, GRIFFIN, CLEVENGER, COLEMAN, KIBBEE, BENNETT, SMITH, TAYLOR, CUSTER

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 8/28/2014 at 08:52:14

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Sept. 5, 1966

CRASH NEAR BROOKLYN SUNDAY KILLS THREE

ELMER MCDONALD

Funeral services for Elmer McDonald will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Myron Harris, pastor of the Northside Friends church, officiating. Organ music will be provided by Mrs. L.V. Willison.

Pallbearers will be Elmer Criswell, Champ Delk, Francis Barkley, George Harbison, Richard McMains and Willard Robison. Honorary pallbearers will be Obie Criswell, Claire Jackson, W.H. Noel and Ted Spading.

Burial will be in Ivy Hill cemetery at Malcom with Jack Day and members of Focht-Tennant Post 53 of the Grinnell American Legion conducting graveside rites.

The son of Nelson Wellington and Anna Almira Griffin McDonald, he was born July 25th, 1911, on a farm north of Malcom. He attended the schools near his home and graduated from Brooklyn high school. On Aug. 22nd, 1933, he was married to Beatrice Clevenger at Lancaster, Mo. They made their in Malcom for five years and then in 1938 moved to Grinnell where they have resided since.

He served in the United States Army during World War II, spending 21 months overseas in the South Pacific. For the past 11 years he had been employed by the Maytag Co. in Newton. He was a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Grinnell, serving as board member and usher.

Mr. McDonald is survived by his wife Beatrice at the family home; and four daughters, Mrs. Bill (Doris) Coleman of Pasadena, Tex., Mrs. Harold (Frances) Kibbee of Brooklyn, Mrs. Marion (Darlene) Bennett of Project City, Calif., and Mrs. Keith (Sherilee) Smith of Malcom.

Also surviving are 10 grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Gerald (Sadia) Taylor of Brownstown, Ill., and Mrs. Viola Custer of Des Moines; one brother, John J. McDonald of Denver, Colo.; and one half-brother, Glenn Griffin of Pittsburgh, Pa.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and three sisters.