Funeral services for Augustus Lawson McDonald, age 76, who died Tuesday at midnight were held Thursday morning at ten o'clock at the First Methodist Church. The Rev. H. B. Hysell, pastor, assisted by the Rev. H. H. McBride, pastor of the First Baptist Church, conducted the services that were followed with interment in the Winnfield Cemetery.
The deceased was the son of the late Augustus R. and Cassa McCarty McDonald of Gansville. He was born June 20, 1867. He came to Winnfield in 1899 and was employed by the late Morris Bernstein in his mercantile business. Later he engaged in the furniture business in a partnership with W. E. Heard. After selling his interest to Mr. Heard he entered the road contracting business.
In 1930 he was elected representative of Winn Parish in the Louisiana legislature after which he was appointed maintenance superintendent of this district for the Louisiana Highway Commission. Because of failing health he retired from active public life in 1935.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Eva Smith McDonald, to whom he was married in 1910, one daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Harris of Mobile, Ala., and two sons, A. Lawson McDonald, Jr., of Texas City, Texas, and Lt. J. Gordon McDonald of Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and four grandchildren; two brothers, Dr. Clarence McDonald, Mannford, Okla., and Henry McDonald, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Serving as pallbearers were Matt Milam, Hasson Morris, J. R. Watts, J. A. Nugent, J. M. Hyde, and P. K. Abel.
Included in the honorary list of pall bearers were W. E. Heard, Jr., J. R. Heard, H. B. Bozeman, N. L. Horton, and W. W. Allen.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, January 14, 1944
The deceased was the son of the late Augustus R. and Cassa McCarty McDonald of Gansville. He was born June 20, 1867. He came to Winnfield in 1899 and was employed by the late Morris Bernstein in his mercantile business. Later he engaged in the furniture business in a partnership with W. E. Heard. After selling his interest to Mr. Heard he entered the road contracting business.
In 1930 he was elected representative of Winn Parish in the Louisiana legislature after which he was appointed maintenance superintendent of this district for the Louisiana Highway Commission. Because of failing health he retired from active public life in 1935.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Eva Smith McDonald, to whom he was married in 1910, one daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Harris of Mobile, Ala., and two sons, A. Lawson McDonald, Jr., of Texas City, Texas, and Lt. J. Gordon McDonald of Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and four grandchildren; two brothers, Dr. Clarence McDonald, Mannford, Okla., and Henry McDonald, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Serving as pallbearers were Matt Milam, Hasson Morris, J. R. Watts, J. A. Nugent, J. M. Hyde, and P. K. Abel.
Included in the honorary list of pall bearers were W. E. Heard, Jr., J. R. Heard, H. B. Bozeman, N. L. Horton, and W. W. Allen.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, January 14, 1944
Funeral services for Augustus Lawson McDonald, age 76, who died Tuesday at midnight were held Thursday morning at ten o'clock at the First Methodist Church. The Rev. H. B. Hysell, pastor, assisted by the Rev. H. H. McBride, pastor of the First Baptist Church, conducted the services that were followed with interment in the Winnfield Cemetery.
The deceased was the son of the late Augustus R. and Cassa McCarty McDonald of Gansville. He was born June 20, 1867. He came to Winnfield in 1899 and was employed by the late Morris Bernstein in his mercantile business. Later he engaged in the furniture business in a partnership with W. E. Heard. After selling his interest to Mr. Heard he entered the road contracting business.
In 1930 he was elected representative of Winn Parish in the Louisiana legislature after which he was appointed maintenance superintendent of this district for the Louisiana Highway Commission. Because of failing health he retired from active public life in 1935.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Eva Smith McDonald, to whom he was married in 1910, one daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Harris of Mobile, Ala., and two sons, A. Lawson McDonald, Jr., of Texas City, Texas, and Lt. J. Gordon McDonald of Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and four grandchildren; two brothers, Dr. Clarence McDonald, Mannford, Okla., and Henry McDonald, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Serving as pallbearers were Matt Milam, Hasson Morris, J. R. Watts, J. A. Nugent, J. M. Hyde, and P. K. Abel.
Included in the honorary list of pall bearers were W. E. Heard, Jr., J. R. Heard, H. B. Bozeman, N. L. Horton, and W. W. Allen.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, January 14, 1944
The deceased was the son of the late Augustus R. and Cassa McCarty McDonald of Gansville. He was born June 20, 1867. He came to Winnfield in 1899 and was employed by the late Morris Bernstein in his mercantile business. Later he engaged in the furniture business in a partnership with W. E. Heard. After selling his interest to Mr. Heard he entered the road contracting business.
In 1930 he was elected representative of Winn Parish in the Louisiana legislature after which he was appointed maintenance superintendent of this district for the Louisiana Highway Commission. Because of failing health he retired from active public life in 1935.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Eva Smith McDonald, to whom he was married in 1910, one daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Harris of Mobile, Ala., and two sons, A. Lawson McDonald, Jr., of Texas City, Texas, and Lt. J. Gordon McDonald of Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and four grandchildren; two brothers, Dr. Clarence McDonald, Mannford, Okla., and Henry McDonald, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Serving as pallbearers were Matt Milam, Hasson Morris, J. R. Watts, J. A. Nugent, J. M. Hyde, and P. K. Abel.
Included in the honorary list of pall bearers were W. E. Heard, Jr., J. R. Heard, H. B. Bozeman, N. L. Horton, and W. W. Allen.
Published in The Winnfield News-American, January 14, 1944
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