Ollie Mcdonald

Ollie Hibbs McDonald

Ollie "Mimi" Hibbs McDonald passed away peacefully on her 98th birthday, Sunday, August 3, 2014, at her home in Elgin, Texas. Ollie and her twin brother, Oley, were born at home in Bastrop County on August 3, 1916, to Dempsey and Beulah Lyles Hibbs. Growing up with four brothers and four sisters Ollie knew a lot about family and love. She also knew much about sadness, losing her father when she was only two to a typhoid epidemic. She survived the typhoid, but he did not.

Ollie met the love of her life, Odell McDonald, when she was only 12 and he was 13. They married when she was 18 and celebrated 71 years of marriage before the angels called him home.
Ollie was a homemaker all of her life, devoting herself to caring for the family and the home. During the Depression years, however, she helped in the fields hoeing and chopping cotton. Ollie and Odell's marriage was blessed with the birth of three children, Shirley, Darryl, and Patsy.

Though a shy and quiet person, she could make the grandchildren howl with laughter or crouch with fear with her Mimi stories. They treasure the memories of time spent with her fishing, "working cattle," and hay baling as well as watching her care for her flowers and her yard. They loved her fried potato sandwiches and marveled that even after visiting for 10 hours she didn't want anyone to "rush off." While she was a meek and gentle servant of the Lord, she was bold in her admonition to her family that they must always stand for the Truth of God's Word. She was unique in the most precious ways.
Her faith and trust in God and His Word was the foundation on which she built her life. She never wavered in her devotion and commitment to her Savior and in her desire to teach her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren the wonders of His love and power. She was truly the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31, and her family is comforted with the knowledge that today she is singing with the angels.
Her greatest earthly joy was her family.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Odell; her oldest grandchild, Lani Green, and her youngest grandchild, Greg Spaw; her great-grandson, Matthew Richburg; and all of her brothers and sisters and their spouses. She leaves to cherish her memory her children, Shirley and Warren Richburg of Elgin, Darryl and Ann McDonald of Bryan, and Patsy and Steve Spaw of Elgin; seven grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins.

The family will receive guests at the Providence-Jones Family Funeral Home at 604 Hwy. 95 North, Elgin, Texas 78621 on Thursday, August 7, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 8, at 10:00 a.m. at the Providence-Jones Family Funeral Home followed by interment at the Elgin Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be her beloved grandsons, Mike Richburg, Darryl "Dinc" McDonald, Scott Spaw, Jeff Spaw, Timothy McDonald, Chad Godfrey, Bernie Uechtritz, and Tyler Spaw (for his dad, Greg).
The family would like to thank our wonderful angels, Wyonda Johnson, Judy Broussard, Anna Reyna, Molly Seggern, Octaviana "Hela" Martinez, and Glenda McCoy, who lovingly cared for mother during her last months and allowed her to remain in her home until called to her heavenly home.