Obituary Record

Robert Leigh MacDonald
Died on 4/27/2004
Buried in Blair Cemetery

#1 Enterprise 30 April 2004

(veteran)

Robert L. MacDonald, 74

Robert Leigh MacDonald, 74, of Blair, died Tuesday, April 27, 2004, at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday, April 30, at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church in Blair. Interment will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Robert Leigh MacDonald was born Oct. 8, 1929, in Blair to Glen and Helen (Olson) MacDonald. He graduated from North High School in Omaha in 1947, and entered the U.S. Army in 1948.

After serving in the military, he was employed as a housewares department manager at Major Appliance in downtown Omaha. He then worked for the U.S. Postal Service as a mail carrier. He retired from the postal service in 1991 after 34 years of service.

After enjoying his childhood summers spent on his grandparent’s farm near Blair, he began his farming career in 1962. He continued to farm until 2002, when the effects of a stroke required his move to Crowell Memorial Home in Blair.

He is survived by his wife, Mary, of Blair; son and daughter-in-law, Dan and Brenda MacDonald of Omaha; daughters and sons-in-law, Lucy and Jim Clark of Petersburg, Ill., Annette and Bob Krueger of Arlington; Mary K. and Earl Larsen of Blair; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a sister, Vivian Gutschow of Fremont.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

#2 World Herald 28 April 2004

(veteran)

MacDonald – Robert Leigh, age 74 yrs., Blair. Survived by wife, Mary; son and daughter-in-law, Dan and Brenda MacDonald, Omaha; daughters and sons-in-law, Lucy and Jim Clark, Petersburg, IL., Annette and Bob Krueger, Arlington, Mary K. and Earl Larsen, Blair; 9 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren; sister, Vivian Gutschow, Fremont.

Services 10 am Fri., St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church, Blair. Burial Blair Cemetery. Visitation 9 am Thursday with Rosary 7 pm Funeral Home.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home, Blair, NE 402-426-2191

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

FindaGrave # 8713385

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 4/30/2004


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