JACQUELINE KELLEY MCDONALD
1927 - 2017

McDONALD, Jacqueline Kelley 89, of Dallas, TX Jacqueline Kelley McDonald was born in Bonham, Texas on August 17, 1927, and died on March 4, 2017. She was the daughter of Tolbert Grisham Kelley and Gladys Perry Kelley and had a younger brother, George Warner Kelley. She married Charles Glenn McDonald in 1946 and they had one son, Scott K. McDonald. After Glenn's death in 1995, Jackie married Harv Merrell, and they were married for seven years. Jackie grew up in Carrollton and attended SMU. She and Glenn lived in Carrollton, Victoria, and Dallas. They liked to travel, find new places to eat, go to football, basketball, and baseball games and play golf. Jackie loved her daily paper and the crossword puzzles it contained. Jackie loved the State Fair and the Arboretum, but more than that Jackie loved being around people. She was always well dressed, well coifed and her makeup was just right all the time. Everyone loved Jackie. She is survived by her son, Scott K. McDonald and her granddaughter, Lillian Sedona McDonald, her sistersinlaw, Peggy Kelley and Carolyn McDonald, her brother-in-law, Roy McDonald and his wife Beth, nieces Judy McDonald, Monnette McDonald Gray, Melaine McDonald Woolsey, Perry Kelley Pennington and Jennifer McDonald Scroggins, nephew Roger Kelley, several cousins and many, many friends. She will be missed. A Memorial Service will be held at 1 P.M. on Saturday, March 18, 2017 in the Chapel of West/Hurtt Funeral Home, 217 S. Hampton Rd., DeSoto, Texas 75115. Memorials are encouraged to the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, P. O. Box 199300, Dallas, TX 75219-9842.

Dallas Morning News - March 12, 2017

Missing elderly woman identified as victim of large Dallas condo fire

DALLAS
Authorities have confirmed that the body pulled from the rubble of a massive Dallas condo fire was that of a missing elderly woman who lived there, according to media reports.

Jacqueline McDonald, 89, was reported missing after the seven-alarm fire at the Preston Place condos in north Dallas over the weekend, CBS 11 reported. Monday morning, a body was found in the destroyed building near McDonald’s unit.

Early Thursday morning, the Dallas County medical examiner confirmed it was McDonald’s body that was removed from the rubble, CBS 11 and FOX 4 reported.

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Updated at 7:44 a.m. Thursday to reflect that the body has been identified as Jacqueline McDonald, the 89-year-old woman reported missing after the fire.

The body found in a North Dallas condo building after a massive blaze tore through it over the weekend has been identified as the 89-year-old woman reported missing Saturday.
The Dallas County medical examiner's office identified the victim as Jacqueline McDonald, a woman with dementia whose body was found near her condo Monday. They have not yet determined her cause of death.


The four-story Preston Place condos in the 6200 block of West Northwest Highway went up in flames late Friday night in a seven-alarm fire. Crews were continuing to extinguish hot spots this week but had to battle visible flames coming from the top of the structure about 1 a.m. Wednesday.

McDONALD
JACQUELINE K - AUG 17, 1927 -
Married July 7, 1946
CHARLES GLENN - NOV 15, 1926 - MAY 17, 1995

Furneaux Cemetery, Carrollton, Denton County, Texas