Published The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly
Ethel McDonald (Mrs. Castellow), '06, died on May 2nd, in Baltimore, Md.
In Memoriam
Ethel was a member of the Class of 1906 — the first class on which Agnes Scott College conferred the regular A. B. degree. Gentle, refined, loyal, devoted, hers was a life well worthy of the trust imposed upon her by her Alma Mater ; and as an Alumna of the College, throughout the years she always labored lovingly and gladly for the promotion and development of Agnes Scott.
Ethel McDonald Castellow was born in Cuthbert, Ga., September 25th, 1886, a descendant of two of the most prominent families in that section of the state, being the daughter of Mr. George and Mrs. Gertrude Gunn McDonald, and the granddaughter of two of Randolph County's pioneer settlers, Edward McDonald and John McKenzie Gunn.
True to the traditions and principles of her forebears, she always stood for what was truest in her community's welfare. Retiring and modest in her disposition, her many charities were dispensed without ostentation, and were numerous and generous.
She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and when in health she was active in its work, always liberal in her support of its various causes, at one time serving most efficiently and successfully as treasurer of the church's funds.
Her most loved public work and one in which she was interested up until the last, was ministering to the happiness of the county's Confederate Veterans, and upholding the work of the U. D. C.
Memorial Day, 1927, came just a few days before her death in Baltimore, and in the midst of extremest suffering, she wanted to know what was being done at home about the Memorial Day exercises.
Blessed in her babyhood by President Jefferson Davis himself, who laid his hand in benediction upon her tiny head, as she was held in her father's arms, she carried through life a shining devotion to the Southland and to the soldiers of the Lost Cause.
On June 28, 1911, she became the wife of Mr. B. T. Castellow, State's Attorney for the Pataula Judicial Circuit, and through the fifteen years as his wife and mother of one little daughter, Gertrude, she entered into the fullness of loving homemaking with the same sincerity and genuine-ness of purpose that always characterized her.
The end came gently to her in the early morning of May 2nd, in Baltimore, where she had gone several weeks before in quest of health. Her sister, Mrs. Emilio Suarez, was with her until the last.
She has been an intense sufferer for many years, patient, brave, determined in her efforts to win the battle for the sake of her little daughter and the others whom she loved : but the forces against the frail body were too strong for her. The funeral services were held at her mother's home in Cuthbert, on the afternoon of May 4th. Sympathizing friends and relatives from all over the seven counties comprising the Pataula Circuit came to pay a last tribute to her and to her sorrowing husband.
The home was a bower of beautiful flowers attesting the love and admiration in which she was held, and she was laid to rest in the family lot at Roseland Cemetery.
Beside her husband and daughter, she is survived by her mother, her sister and one brother, J. E. McDonald, all of Cuthbert.
A college classmate, writing of her since she was taken away, says :
"There never was a lovelier person than Ethel — so sweet, unselfish, considerate, so loyal, so conscientious in her work — and with such a high sense of honor in all things and with it all, a brilliant mind and one so capable and efficient. It will always be one of the sweetest privileges of my life to have known her so well."
Ethel McDonald (Mrs. Castellow), '06, died on May 2nd, in Baltimore, Md.
In Memoriam
Ethel was a member of the Class of 1906 — the first class on which Agnes Scott College conferred the regular A. B. degree. Gentle, refined, loyal, devoted, hers was a life well worthy of the trust imposed upon her by her Alma Mater ; and as an Alumna of the College, throughout the years she always labored lovingly and gladly for the promotion and development of Agnes Scott.
Ethel McDonald Castellow was born in Cuthbert, Ga., September 25th, 1886, a descendant of two of the most prominent families in that section of the state, being the daughter of Mr. George and Mrs. Gertrude Gunn McDonald, and the granddaughter of two of Randolph County's pioneer settlers, Edward McDonald and John McKenzie Gunn.
True to the traditions and principles of her forebears, she always stood for what was truest in her community's welfare. Retiring and modest in her disposition, her many charities were dispensed without ostentation, and were numerous and generous.
She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and when in health she was active in its work, always liberal in her support of its various causes, at one time serving most efficiently and successfully as treasurer of the church's funds.
Her most loved public work and one in which she was interested up until the last, was ministering to the happiness of the county's Confederate Veterans, and upholding the work of the U. D. C.
Memorial Day, 1927, came just a few days before her death in Baltimore, and in the midst of extremest suffering, she wanted to know what was being done at home about the Memorial Day exercises.
Blessed in her babyhood by President Jefferson Davis himself, who laid his hand in benediction upon her tiny head, as she was held in her father's arms, she carried through life a shining devotion to the Southland and to the soldiers of the Lost Cause.
On June 28, 1911, she became the wife of Mr. B. T. Castellow, State's Attorney for the Pataula Judicial Circuit, and through the fifteen years as his wife and mother of one little daughter, Gertrude, she entered into the fullness of loving homemaking with the same sincerity and genuine-ness of purpose that always characterized her.
The end came gently to her in the early morning of May 2nd, in Baltimore, where she had gone several weeks before in quest of health. Her sister, Mrs. Emilio Suarez, was with her until the last.
She has been an intense sufferer for many years, patient, brave, determined in her efforts to win the battle for the sake of her little daughter and the others whom she loved : but the forces against the frail body were too strong for her. The funeral services were held at her mother's home in Cuthbert, on the afternoon of May 4th. Sympathizing friends and relatives from all over the seven counties comprising the Pataula Circuit came to pay a last tribute to her and to her sorrowing husband.
The home was a bower of beautiful flowers attesting the love and admiration in which she was held, and she was laid to rest in the family lot at Roseland Cemetery.
Beside her husband and daughter, she is survived by her mother, her sister and one brother, J. E. McDonald, all of Cuthbert.
A college classmate, writing of her since she was taken away, says :
"There never was a lovelier person than Ethel — so sweet, unselfish, considerate, so loyal, so conscientious in her work — and with such a high sense of honor in all things and with it all, a brilliant mind and one so capable and efficient. It will always be one of the sweetest privileges of my life to have known her so well."
Published The Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly
Ethel McDonald (Mrs. Castellow), '06, died on May 2nd, in Baltimore, Md.
In Memoriam
Ethel was a member of the Class of 1906 — the first class on which Agnes Scott College conferred the regular A. B. degree. Gentle, refined, loyal, devoted, hers was a life well worthy of the trust imposed upon her by her Alma Mater ; and as an Alumna of the College, throughout the years she always labored lovingly and gladly for the promotion and development of Agnes Scott.
Ethel McDonald Castellow was born in Cuthbert, Ga., September 25th, 1886, a descendant of two of the most prominent families in that section of the state, being the daughter of Mr. George and Mrs. Gertrude Gunn McDonald, and the granddaughter of two of Randolph County's pioneer settlers, Edward McDonald and John McKenzie Gunn.
True to the traditions and principles of her forebears, she always stood for what was truest in her community's welfare. Retiring and modest in her disposition, her many charities were dispensed without ostentation, and were numerous and generous.
She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and when in health she was active in its work, always liberal in her support of its various causes, at one time serving most efficiently and successfully as treasurer of the church's funds.
Her most loved public work and one in which she was interested up until the last, was ministering to the happiness of the county's Confederate Veterans, and upholding the work of the U. D. C.
Memorial Day, 1927, came just a few days before her death in Baltimore, and in the midst of extremest suffering, she wanted to know what was being done at home about the Memorial Day exercises.
Blessed in her babyhood by President Jefferson Davis himself, who laid his hand in benediction upon her tiny head, as she was held in her father's arms, she carried through life a shining devotion to the Southland and to the soldiers of the Lost Cause.
On June 28, 1911, she became the wife of Mr. B. T. Castellow, State's Attorney for the Pataula Judicial Circuit, and through the fifteen years as his wife and mother of one little daughter, Gertrude, she entered into the fullness of loving homemaking with the same sincerity and genuine-ness of purpose that always characterized her.
The end came gently to her in the early morning of May 2nd, in Baltimore, where she had gone several weeks before in quest of health. Her sister, Mrs. Emilio Suarez, was with her until the last.
She has been an intense sufferer for many years, patient, brave, determined in her efforts to win the battle for the sake of her little daughter and the others whom she loved : but the forces against the frail body were too strong for her. The funeral services were held at her mother's home in Cuthbert, on the afternoon of May 4th. Sympathizing friends and relatives from all over the seven counties comprising the Pataula Circuit came to pay a last tribute to her and to her sorrowing husband.
The home was a bower of beautiful flowers attesting the love and admiration in which she was held, and she was laid to rest in the family lot at Roseland Cemetery.
Beside her husband and daughter, she is survived by her mother, her sister and one brother, J. E. McDonald, all of Cuthbert.
A college classmate, writing of her since she was taken away, says :
"There never was a lovelier person than Ethel — so sweet, unselfish, considerate, so loyal, so conscientious in her work — and with such a high sense of honor in all things and with it all, a brilliant mind and one so capable and efficient. It will always be one of the sweetest privileges of my life to have known her so well."
Ethel McDonald (Mrs. Castellow), '06, died on May 2nd, in Baltimore, Md.
In Memoriam
Ethel was a member of the Class of 1906 — the first class on which Agnes Scott College conferred the regular A. B. degree. Gentle, refined, loyal, devoted, hers was a life well worthy of the trust imposed upon her by her Alma Mater ; and as an Alumna of the College, throughout the years she always labored lovingly and gladly for the promotion and development of Agnes Scott.
Ethel McDonald Castellow was born in Cuthbert, Ga., September 25th, 1886, a descendant of two of the most prominent families in that section of the state, being the daughter of Mr. George and Mrs. Gertrude Gunn McDonald, and the granddaughter of two of Randolph County's pioneer settlers, Edward McDonald and John McKenzie Gunn.
True to the traditions and principles of her forebears, she always stood for what was truest in her community's welfare. Retiring and modest in her disposition, her many charities were dispensed without ostentation, and were numerous and generous.
She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and when in health she was active in its work, always liberal in her support of its various causes, at one time serving most efficiently and successfully as treasurer of the church's funds.
Her most loved public work and one in which she was interested up until the last, was ministering to the happiness of the county's Confederate Veterans, and upholding the work of the U. D. C.
Memorial Day, 1927, came just a few days before her death in Baltimore, and in the midst of extremest suffering, she wanted to know what was being done at home about the Memorial Day exercises.
Blessed in her babyhood by President Jefferson Davis himself, who laid his hand in benediction upon her tiny head, as she was held in her father's arms, she carried through life a shining devotion to the Southland and to the soldiers of the Lost Cause.
On June 28, 1911, she became the wife of Mr. B. T. Castellow, State's Attorney for the Pataula Judicial Circuit, and through the fifteen years as his wife and mother of one little daughter, Gertrude, she entered into the fullness of loving homemaking with the same sincerity and genuine-ness of purpose that always characterized her.
The end came gently to her in the early morning of May 2nd, in Baltimore, where she had gone several weeks before in quest of health. Her sister, Mrs. Emilio Suarez, was with her until the last.
She has been an intense sufferer for many years, patient, brave, determined in her efforts to win the battle for the sake of her little daughter and the others whom she loved : but the forces against the frail body were too strong for her. The funeral services were held at her mother's home in Cuthbert, on the afternoon of May 4th. Sympathizing friends and relatives from all over the seven counties comprising the Pataula Circuit came to pay a last tribute to her and to her sorrowing husband.
The home was a bower of beautiful flowers attesting the love and admiration in which she was held, and she was laid to rest in the family lot at Roseland Cemetery.
Beside her husband and daughter, she is survived by her mother, her sister and one brother, J. E. McDonald, all of Cuthbert.
A college classmate, writing of her since she was taken away, says :
"There never was a lovelier person than Ethel — so sweet, unselfish, considerate, so loyal, so conscientious in her work — and with such a high sense of honor in all things and with it all, a brilliant mind and one so capable and efficient. It will always be one of the sweetest privileges of my life to have known her so well."
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