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Show Mother McDonald Dies' of Heart Trouble in Colo. Mrs. "John Thomas McDonald, more Intimately known as "Mother" McDonald, Mc-Donald, died this week in Grand Junction, Colo., from heart failure, which was brought on by a paralytic stroke. ... . She was 63 yeSrs of age, and 'Spent much or her life In Bingham, where she conducted a boarding house. Because of her wide acqqualntance Mrs. McDonald was or great assistance assis-tance In Identifying the victims of the Bingham snow slide. She had sold her interest in the boarding house just two days before the slide occurred. occur-red. At the time of her death she was arranging to take over a boarding house In Rico, Colo. Mrs. McDonald was born In Marys-vllle. Marys-vllle. 111., January 8, 1864, and had resided in Salt Lake, Hiawatha and Bingham for the last twenty-four years. She was a member of Mizpah chanter. Order of Eastern. Star; past grand chief of the Pythian Sisters, a member of Reynolds circle, G.A.R., and of Susannah Eaton camp, Daughters Daugh-ters of Veterans. , , She Is survived by three daughters: Mrs. C. E. Hasslnger, Hiawatha; Mrs. J. W. Funk, Berkeley, Cal.; Mrs. A. S. Ross, Vallejo, Cal.; three sons, Walter W. of Richmond, Cal.; James H. and John Thomas, both of 8alt Lake, and by two grandsons. J - Mrs. McDonald's Immediate lamily were In attendance when the end came Thursday. |
