[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Evening Press
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 52, no. 224, p. 7, col. 6
VETERAN GLASS
WORKER DIES
Harry McDonald With Firm for
71 Years.
Harry A. McDonald. 85. until his retirement in 1940, the oldest continuous glass worker in Eastern Indiana, died at Ball Hospital at 5:30 a. m., Tuesday — his 85th birthday. The family home is at 402 1/2 E. Main street.
Mr. McDonald was retired by Owens-Illinois Glass Company, which bought out the Hemingray Glass Company of Muncie on July 31, 1940 71 years after he started work as a boy of nine years of age with the Hemingray Company at Covington, Ohio. At the age of 20 he was a glass blower and then served 13 years as night superintendent and later as day superintendent. He came to Muncie with the Hemingray Company from Covington in 1898. He was a native of Canada.
He was one of three veteran glass workers who were signally honored by the Muncie Chamber of Commerce in the observance of "Glass Night" on May 18, 1938. The annual dinner of the Chamber that year was in honor of the glass industry and nationally known leaders in the industry attended. Phil Hanna, Chicago Journal of Commerce editor, was the speaker. Mr. McDonald and the other veteran employes, Elza DeWitt and Michael M. Menard, occupied places at the speaker's table.
He is survived by the widow, Mary C., and nieces and nephews. The funeral will be at 2 p. m., Thursday, at the Meeks mortuary with the Reverend Dewey Hole of Yorktown in charge. Burial will be in Elm Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after 4 p. m.. Wednesday.