Obituary of Mary Lee Corley McDonald, LaSalle Parish, La.




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Submitted by Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

Thank You to the Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal for allowing the following to
be add to the Archives.

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal

Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 
Page 17A

Mary Lee Corley McDonald

Mary Lee Corley McDonald, 82, of Baskin, died on Thursday, October 8, 2001,
after a lengthy illness.

She was born April 29, 1919 in Grant Parish, near Pollock, to the union of
Oliver Larkin and Ellen Paul Corley. She was married to S. T. McDonald, Sr.,
on March 5, 1935. The couple celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary earlier
this year.

She was floor manager for the TG&Y store in Winnsboro for 21 years and was a
member of the Baskin Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday School.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Saturday, November 10, at Baskin Baptist Church
with the Revs. Buford Brady and Paul Kolb officiating.

Interment followed in Reagan Cemetery of Baskin under direction of Gill First
National Funeral Home of Winnsboro.

Survivors include her husband, S. T. McDonald, Sr. of Baskin; one daughter,
Elaine McDonald Wiltshire of Winnsboro; three sons, Charles McDonald and S. T.
McDonald, Jr., both of Winnsboro, William Earl McDonald of San Diego, Ca.; two
sisters, Onedra Corley Swearengin and Lottie Mae Corley Owers, both of
Pollock; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Charles McDonald, George Ivan Swearengin, Frank M. Reese,
Allen barber, Danny barber, and Eugen Parker.

Honorary pallbearers were Marshall McDonald, Leanard Earl Gurganus and Steve
Carroll.