The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-03-14
Troy News Items
WILLIAM Is. MACDONALD
OBITUARY.


Funeral services for William B. Mac
Donald, president and owner of The
Kootenai Light and Power company,
were held in Kalispell last Saturday.
March 8, at ST Matthews church.
Requiem mass was celebrated by
Father O'Farrell, assisted by Father
O'Malley of Poison His body was laid
to rest in the Conrad Memorial cene-
terry
Mr.. Macdonald was born in Anti
gouish county. Nova Scotia November
Z, 1868. He left home at an early age
and found his first employment with
the Western Union Telegraph company
While with that company he worked
in eight states, travelling from Bangor,
Maine, as far west as Colorado Springs
He then transferred from the telegraph
to the telephone business, with which
he remained for year, and then went
with the Fort Wayne Electric company
at Fort Wayne, Indiana. remaining with
that company for Is years. installing
electric plants in various cities through
out the country. One of the first was
at New Orleans during the exposition
in 1885 While in Fort Wayne he met
and married Miss Catherine Gilmartin
and she accompanied him on his travels
until few years after their first child,
Marie, was born The family then
located in Chicago where they re-
manned for II years. and it was there
that their second child, Edward, was
born. In Chicago he was with the
Commonwealth Edison company. In
1902 Mr. Macdonald became manager
of the Evansville Gas and Electric COM
pany of Evansville, Indiana, and the
family removed to that city. He moved
to Kalispell in 1910, where he has been
manager Of the Mountain States Power
company.
Besides Mrs. Macdonald, 4he is sur
vived by his daughten Mrs Marie
Kane of Fort Wayne, and his son,
Edward Macdonald of Salinas, Calf
The active pallbearers were Sidney
NJ Logan DR.. w. S. Little, T. c. Hand,
John Sherman, ]. P. Bruckhauser, A.
]. Grant. F. B. Marshall, Lee Dennis.
w. B. Macdonald always took
whole-hearted interest in the welfare
of this community and was highly es-
teemed by everyone Most expressive of
the high regard in which he was gen
orally held are the following excerpts
written by Sidney NJ Logan for the
Kalispell Daily Inter Lake
Occasionally, there comes to every
community an outstanding character
who does not have to wait until death |
has closed his eyes to receive the trib-
utes of his friends or the public ac-
acknowledgement of his fine qualities; and |
who in the final summing up. needs
no apologist no need for the retouching
of the picture, no smoothing out Of the
rough spots or charitable or magnani- |
nous erasures or forgetfulness.
Happy is he whose life and char
acter, whose business contacts and |
social relations may be recalled and |
pictured in their fullness-no faults
CLOSED over-no incidents obscured.
Such a life and such a character |
was that of W. b. Macdonald, for IS |
years beloved member of this COM |
munity. 1t is no exaggeration to say
that no man who ever lived in Flathead
county, partook SO fully of the love and
confidence of the people of4all classes
and interests.
-. This is achievement. This is the
full flower and fruition of beautiful
life-a life spent in endearing friend
ship, loyalty, good will, generosity,
kindlness. helpfulness in word, act
and deed, all tempered by quaint and
happy humor-a high and dauntless
courage in sickness and in health, in
prosperity and in adversely. His motto