Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County, CA
Published in the "Big Bear Grizzly"
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Judith Ann McDougald (Jones) passed away at Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, 
Oregon, on July 16, 2004, at 3:05a.m. as a result of respiratory failure 
caused by interstitial lung disease. She was 62 years old.

Born on April 26, 1942, in Santa Ana, California, Judy attended school at 
Fullerton, Mariposa, and Paradise grade schools and attended high school 
at Loma Linda - all in California. In her early adult years, she worked at 
the Yucaipa Valley Medical Center as a medical receptionist. While working 
there she met Jerry McDougald, a patient who had injured his ankle in a 
motorcycle accident. Judy and Jerry were married in the early 1960s, lived 
in San Jose, California, while Jerry attended college at San Jose State 
University and then moved to Big Bear in 1969. Judy worked primarily as a 
Medical Transcriptionist for several years at the San Bernardino Community 
Hospital and then she transferred to the Bear Valley Community Hospital when 
it opened in 1974. She was professionally certified as a Senior Medical 
Transcriptionist. She also had her own typing business in Big Bear Lake. 
In 1987, the family moved to Redlands, California, where Judy worked at the 
Beaver Medical Clinic and at the Loma Linda University Medical Center, 
eventually retiring in 1990. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 
1992 and subsequently Judy and Jerry moved to Oregon where they retired on 
the southern coast at Port Orford, Oregon. She spent the last 12 years of 
her life traveling with her husband, writing her life story, and crocheting 
beautiful blankets and baby clothes for her friends and family. She loved the 
Oregon Coast and took walks along the beach with Jerry. She enjoyed working 
in the yard at her Port Orford home with the sound of the surf pounding against 
the nearby beach. In 2000, Jerry's sister acquired the old ancestral fox ranch 
after 40 years of being out of the family. Judy and Jerry since then spent half 
the year in Big Bear Lake, California, and the other half in Port Orford, Oregon. 
During these last years, Judy reconnected with many of her friends and family, 
spending time in California enjoying her grandchildren. All who knew her loved 
Judy and she made many friends wherever she went. Even the animals, such as 
horses, cats, and dogs, loved Judy.

Judy had many talents and was blessed with a beautiful singing voice. She sang in 
church and even recorded herself singing a variety of classic songs from the 
`40s-`70s, some of which her family played at her funeral. She could also play 
the organ and clarinet. She loved to write letters and she was working on an 
autobiography and family history in her later years. Throughout her life she 
was involved in various church activities.

She is survived by her longtime companion & loving husband, Jerry McDougald, a 
retired architect and builder and a resident of Big Bear Lake, California, and 
of Port Orford, Oregon; son, Dr. Jimmy McDougald, Program Director of Respiratory 
Care at Concord University and a resident of Colton, California; daughter, Lisa 
McDougald, senior at Oregon State University and resident of Corvallis, Oregon; 
four grandchildren, Justin, Jonny, Cassidy, and Caitlynn; brother, Alfred H. 
Jones II and sister-in-law, Maxine Jones of Loma Linda, California; sister-in-law, 
Linda Watson (Jerry's sister) of Valencia and of Big Bear Lake, California; and 
brother-in-law, Jack B. Watson of La Canáda-Flintridge, California.  

A funeral service was held for Judy at 10a.m. on Friday, July 23, 2004 at the 
Montecito Mortuary Chapel in Loma Linda, California.

The McDougald family would like to welcome all who knew Judy to send notes, letters, 
cards, and memories to The McDougald Family, Historic McDougald Fox Ranch, P.O. 
Box 3602, Big Bear Lake, CA 92315.