TITLE:  Bertha Elizabeth Collins McDonald

SOURCE: Keowee Publications, May 30, 2001 

SUBMITTED: Keowee Publications

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, June 2001

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Seneca - Bertha Elizabeth Collins McDonald, 83, of 2020 Blue Ridge 
Blvd., died Friday, May 25, 2001 at St. Francis Hospital in Greenville.
A native of Tamassee, she was a retired textile employee and was the 
owner and operator of McDonald's Drive Inn of Salem for 30 years.  She 
was a member of Cheohee Baptist Church.  She was the widow of George 
Marshall McDonald, Sr., and the daughter of the late James Adam and 
Pearl Grant Collins.  Surviving are sons, George Marshall McDonald, Jr.
, and wife Janice of Seneca; a grandson reared in the home, Ralph Rusty
McDonald and wife Pamela of Seneca; a special daughter, Helen McNeely 
and husband Jerry of Salem; a sister, Ibera Hyatt and husband Arthur 
of Salem; half brothers, Jimmy Collins of Seneca, Clyde and Larry 
Collins, both of Walhalla; grandchildren, George "Chip" McDonald, III 
and wife Deborah of Williamston, Cathy Nation of Chicago, Ill, and 
Joan Gosnell of Salem; and great-grandchildren, Jason and Joshua 
Gosnell and Ashton Rae McDonald, all of Seneca, and Keely Rose 
McDonald of Williamston.  Services were at 4pm Sunday at Cheohee 
Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery.  Davenport Funeral 
Home was in charge of arrangements.  Memorials may be made to the 
Cheohee Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, 829 Cheohee Valley Road, 
Tamasseee, SC 29686(Keowee Publications May 30, 2001)
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