CLARA BELL MCDONALD

GOLDEN CITY- Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar for Clara Bell McDonald, 88, Golden City, who died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022, at Good Shepherd Community Care and Rehabilitation facility in Lockwood, where she had been a resident for a little over three years. Burial will follow in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Golden City.

Contributions are suggested and made payable to the Barton County Senior Citizens Center, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include her four children, Gregory Lee McDonald and wife Renae, Golden City, Johnia Jill Peters and husband Dan, Lamar, Bethany Jayne Babbitt and husband, Mike, Lamar and Todd Ray McDonald and wife Cathy, Lamar; her grandchildren who affectionately called her "Grandma Jingle Bell", Micah McDonald and wife Shawnda, Mitch McDonald and wife Tasha, Michelle Miller and husband Chase, Levi Peters and wife Amy, Lindsey Williams, Lisa Peters, Annie Hawes and Davey Crockett, Carla Stepp, Ben Stepp and wife Rachell, Brooke Overman and husband Taylor and Brett McDonald and Madison Baldwin.

She loved visits from the ones who called her "Grandma Great", Desiree, Madison, Mason, Marrisa, Tatin, Tristan, Cloe, Joseph, Jackson, Tyler, Tyanna, Ayden, Corbin, Stephen, Rhett and Walker, along with the great-great grandchildren, Myla and Ava. She is also survived by her siblings, Mary Ann Wade, Joplin, Leona Camp, Lamar and Roger Leivan, Webb City and sister-in-law, Mary Ann Leivan along with many nieces and nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her husband and four brothers, J.R. Leivan, Alvin Leivan, Derald Leivan and Frank Leivan.

Mrs. McDonald was born Jan. 6, 1934, on the Mabee family farm just north of Golden City, to Roscoe and Elva Lena (Mabee) Leivan.

She graduated in the Golden City Class of 1951 and married Claude Lee McDonald on May 3, 1951 in Bentonville, Ark. He preceded her in death on December 24, 1994. She was a farm wife, homemaker, mother and the OATS bus driver for Barton and Dade counties for 20 years. She enjoyed traveling, reading, coloring and had a massive collection of turtles.

She was a lifelong member of the Lamar Assembly of God Church and also enjoyed worshiping with the Grace Pentecostal Church in Golden City. She was a prayer warrior, a caregiver, a true and faithful servant of God. She also volunteered with the Red Cross Blood Drives, was a member of Stone WPFA Club, enjoyed her time at the Lamar Senior Citizens Center and was an election judge for several years.