Rev. E. A. McDonald (-1936)

MCDONALD, KNAPP, CHIPMAN, WISHARD

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 3/30/2009 at 21:40:03

AMES DAILY TRIBUNE AND TIMES, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Saturday, June 6, 1936.

I. S. Graduate To Be Buried Here Saturday

The body of the Rev. E. A. McDonald, 77, who was found dead Friday at his home in Des Moines, will be interred in the Iowa State college cemetery at 3:30 p. m., Saturday, following funeral services in Des Moines at 2 p. m. at Dunn's funeral home.

Burial will be beside the grave of his sister, Mrs. Margaret Stanton; who was the first dean of women at the college and wife of the former acting president, Edgar W. Stanton.

The Rev. Mr. McDonald, a retired Presbyterian minister, was found dead Friday in a chair beside his invalid wife, who had been unable to summon aid when she saw that her husband was dying. A neighbor, alarmed when no one answered the door and found the aged minister dead.

A graduate of Iowa State in 1882 the Rev. Mr. McDonald spent 20 years as a missionary in Guatemala, Mexico City, and Puerto Rico. He moved to Des Moines in 1920.

Surviving him are his widow, three sisters, Mrs. Herman Knapp of Ames, Mrs. Janet Chipman of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. Florence McDonald Wishard, Fullerton, Cal.