Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....McDONALD, Lawrence Cade August 2, 1962 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 May 22, 2009, 1:49 am The Brunswick News; Friday 2 August 1962; pg. 10 col. 6 & pg. 3 cols. 5 & 6 B&W EMPLOYEE KILLED AS CAR STRIKES TRAIN A 42-year-old Babcock & Wilcox Co. employee was fatally injured early today when his car slammed into a railroad car at the Atlantic Coast Line crossing on Townsend Street. Lawrence C. McDonald, 2050 Blain Street, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Brunswick hospital. His death brought Glynn County’s accidental death toll for the year to seven. McDonald’s 1955 model car, traveling west on Townsend Street, struck the northbound train at a coupling, apparently without applying brakes, according to investigating county police who reported finding no skid marks. Sgt. A.L. Lokey and officers J.T. Fales, W.C. Tucker and W.B. House quoted ACL trainman as saying he did not place flares at the crossing because he saw no traffic. The accident occurred at 2:10 a.m. The impact jammed a foot sill beneath the box car and bent a side sill on the car’s southeast side, police said. Glass from the automobile was found 85 feet from the crash scene, officers added. The automobile, owned by Otto Johnson Motor Co., was termed a total loss. McDonald is survived by his wife, three sons, Larry, Phil, and Mike, all of Brunswick; mother, Mrs. William McDonald, Preston, Md.; five sisters, Mrs. C.P. Hagan, Mulberry, Fla., Mrs. Grace Herring, Wilmington, Del., Mrs. E.L. Bridegroom, Mrs. Jean McDonald, and Mrs. Gerald Plutzchak, and Miss Jenell McDonald, all of Preston, Md.; four brothers, William McDonald, U.S. Marines, Camp Lejune, N.C., Ted, San Francisco, Anon, Preston, Md., and Alton, Federalsburg, Md. He was born in Jeff Davis County, the son of Mrs. Fennie Woods McDonald and the late William M. McDonald. McDonald had been a Brunswick resident for the past 15 years, coming here from Chattanooga, Tenn. he was a World War II veteran and a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Gibson-Hart-Durden Funeral Home. The Brunswick News; Saturday 4 August 1962; pg. 12 col. 6 McDONALD FUNERAL PLANNED TOMORROW Funeral services for Lawrence C. McDonald, killed in a car-train collision yesterday, will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the Calvary Baptist Church. The Rev. Gordon Hunter will officiate. Interment will be in Brunswick Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be William J. Piersel, Herbert A. Rogers, Joe Lloyd, R.L. Wilking, Ralph Raulerson, and Fred Beck. Honorary pallbearers will be Otto Johnson, Sr., Otto Johnson, Jr., Jack Corn, Sr., Clyde Chapman, L.W. Warren, J.B. Wells, Charles Akins, Henry W. Coates, John Finleyson, Curtis Burch, Sr., officers and stewards of Local 901, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, and Deacons of Calvary Baptist Church. The Gibson-Hart-Durden Funeral Home is in charge. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at