Birth date: May 14, 1929 Death date: Oct 12, 2015
Harold Matthews McDonald Jr. 86, passed away peacefully on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015 at Sunrise Senior Living, Annapolis MD. Harold was born May 14, 1929 in Washington DC. He resided in Riverdale MD, Beltsville MD and Port Republic M Read Obituary
Mac was a good friend of mine in Heritage Harbour. He and I bowled on the same team and enjoyed bowling together. He was a wonderful man and we have missed him in the community. A very compassionate and kind man. He was always trying to send me some business as I sell homes in the community and he enjoyed telling me about what was going on in his area He will be missed by all of us. Joni Jones 410-268-1121. Call me if I can be of any help during this difficult time.
Missing you so much, Pop pop! Love you forever and always!
My Dad, I am proud to call you My Dad. You were the best father and role model I could have. You instilled in me a work ethic and how important it is to Love and Cherish family. I'm a lot like you. My personality. my humor, my demeanor and my looks.When I see photos of you I can't help but think how much I am like you. I loved the time we spent fishing, sometimes not catching anything, stopping at a roadside stand to take fish home to show mom. I bet she know we didn't catch them. You and Mom had a beautiful life together and a wonderful home in Port Republic. It makes me smile when I think about how you would tinker with that damn boat until the time you sold it. I loved how our family would gather almost every Saturday at your house to enjoy each others company, swimming in the pool and eating crabs. You lived a long productive life and touched a lot of people. I am ready to accept that you won't be with us, but I know you are in a better place along side Mom and Jeannette and all the other loved ones lost over the years. May you all rest in peace.
Love you and miss you Dad
Love Always, Robert
Robert, Terri and McDonald Family, We are so sorry to hear of your Dad's passing. We have a wonderful memory from Kayla's Birthday. Living in Pittsburgh we have a favorite sandwich of chipped ham and barbecue sauce. "Ham Barbecues" We carted the chipped ham down to Maryland for the party' . He really liked it and when he went for the second sandwich he commented that "Those Pittsburgh Hamburgers are pretty good, I'll have another!! We will never have them without thinking of him. Please accept our condolences.
Linda and Ed Shaw
Pittsburgh PA
I never had the pleasure of meeting Harold personally, we met through his cousin, my mother in law, Norma Hinrichsen. He enjoyed keeping up with the family genealogy and connected with me on new births in the family. We kept in contact after, through email and Christmas cards. What a rich and interesting life he lead. My condolences to the family. So nice to see pictures of him. May he rest peacefully with the Lord.
Tina Vester
My name is David P. McDonald, Jr. David P. McDonald, Sr. is my father, who is Harold's nephew.
I'm going to be 31 in only a few months. In nearly 31 years, I never had the opportunity to really get to know Harold's brother, MY Grandfather, William Paul. I never got to know William Paul the way I came to know Harold when I was older. The time I spent with Harold's brother, my grandfather, was brief, when I was very young, so I don't have any memories of him. I wish I did.
I DO, however, have memories of Harold, and I'm very thankful for those memories. I remember him the way anyone should remember a person- as a kind, gentle, incredibly caring and generous man, who taught me a lot about my extended family. For a million different reasons, I never had the opportunity to really connect with extended family who are probably reading this message, so I'm happy to share that Great Uncle Harold represented our clan very well.
One of my favorite memories of Uncle Harold was from a time, a few years ago, when he'd come over to Mom and Dad's house in West River just to visit. My father is one of the greatest men I'll ever know. In that greatness, is a superhuman ability to make a penny scream. My entire life we'd had big tube TVs. We had cable and internet forever, so I'm thankful for that, but GOD did we have some monster box Tvs. People had been walking the earth with slim phones that could receive signals from outer-freakin'-space WAY before we finally got a flat screen tv in our house. We always gave Dad a hard time about it.
Uncle Harold came in one time, all smiles, just happy to be alive and livin', and strolled right in and said.. "Dave!? Where the heck are your flat screen Tvs!?" Now, I love my Dad more than life itself, but any opportunity to make him blush is just too good. Uncle Harold knew exactly what he was doing, because he knew my Dad, and he absolutely nailed so many things with his awesome sense of humor. We laughed a LOT at that moment. In fact, I remember always laughing when he was around. I'm thankful to Uncle Harold for showing me that the McDonald sense of humor is genetic.
I remember being so thankful that he'd taken so much time and energy, and money, to research our family tree. He came over one time with a big old packet of family history. Things I could have never known if Uncle Harold weren't around to be the kind, caring, inquisitive man that he was.
If Harold is remembered for anything, I hope it's how eager he seemed to be to connect with family and other people- how eager he was to care about them, and that's a really unique thing.
I always enjoyed learning about Harold's history with the Fire Department, and some of the struggles he'd encountered in his life. There was wisdom in, well, MOST of what he had to say. :)
I want to express my deepest sympathies to Uncle Harold's immediate family, and to let them know that he was very important to many people, and loved by many people. He will be greatly missed.
-David P. McDonald, Jr.
