The Shawnee News Star
DEC 5 2008
Longtime Seminole resident Edna McDonald passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 at the age of 86.
Edna was born to Orville and Mattie Snodgrass on a cattle ranch east of Coldwater, Kan. Dec. 31, 1921. She came to Seminole with her parents during the oil boom in 1926, living in tents as her dad worked in the oil fields.
She attended school at Little Mt. View and Mt. View High School. She married Bill McDonald in November of 1939. Edna workeed at Tinker Field during
World War II installing hydraulic systems in bombers. After the war she and
Bill moved to Stonewall, to the County Line area, and then back to Seminole.
After Seminole they lived in Cromwell, Cushing, Tulsa and Jenks.
While living in Jenks she worked for the Jenks School System in the food
department. She was a devoted wife and mother to a son and daughter William H.
and Betty Ilene.
Edna was an excellent craftsman, besides needle and crochet she also did
ceramics. Best of all she was a painter, mostly oil, doing landscape and stills
also some reverse drawing.
After Bill retired in 1983 they returned to Seminole spending most of
the time in their recreation vehicle. Together they spent their winters in
the Rio Grand Valley near the Mexican border and their summers in the mountains
of Colorado and New Mexico. They lived full time in the Fifth Wheel RV for
about 9 years.
Most of all, Edna was a Christian. She was baptized by Brother C.R.
Nichol early in her life. Edna is survived by her husband, Bill; son, William
H. McDonald, of Tulsa; daughter, Betty Boggs, of Haskell; one grandson, Troy
Boggs, of Haskell; one granddaughter, Rachel McDonald, of Brunswick, GA; and
one great-granddaughter, Georgia, of Brunswick, GA. She is also survived by
one brother, Loren Snodgrass, of Perry, and one sister, Marlene Harris, of Elk
City.
Her parents and two sisters preceded her in death.
Casket bearers will be: Melvin Thompson, Roy Boydstun, Leon McDonald,
Steve McDonald, Bradley McDonald, and David Harris.
Honary Bearers will be: Cecil Sullivan, Jack Mattingly, Gary Snow,
Stacy Kinssey, Tommy Mills, Lee Stillwell and James Vanlandingham.
Service are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Saturday, December 6, 2008 at the Seminole Church of Christ, 4200 North Highway 99 with Chris Stinnett and Frank Williams officiating. Burial will follow at Little Cemetery in Little.
Services are under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home, 100 W. Strother, Seminole.
Messages of condolences may be sent to the family online at www.swearingenfuneralhome.com.
