Adelbert 0. "Mac" McDonald's twenty-two year battle with cancer ended on February 14, 2011. The Funeral Liturgy will be 10:00 am Thursday, February 17, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5501 Monticello Rd. Shawnee, KS. Friends may call 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, at the Porter Funeral Home, 8535 Monrovia Lenexa, KS, where the Rosary will be prayed at 5:00 p.m. Burial in Olathe Memorial Cemetery. Memorial contributions are suggested to Safe Home, P.O. Box 4563 Overland Park, KS 66204-0563. 

His courage, determination, and zest for life blessed and enriched the lives of those who experienced his genuine unselfish concern and love for family, friends, students, and humanity. He courageously fought prostate, colon, and kidney cancer. Mac graduated from Marquette University in 1952, with a BA in Education. On May 29, 1954, he married his late wife, Barbara Goulet in the Church of the Gesu at Milwaukee University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moved to Johnson County where they had resided since. From 1954 to 1956, he . began his teaching career at old Milburn Junior High in Shawnee Mission School district teaching French. In the following year, he worked for the Belgium Government. He discovered his true love working with students while there, so he returned back to teaching at Milburn Junior High. Later, he obtained a Masters Degree in History. In 1962, he started teaching history at Shawnee Mission West. Between 1981 to 1985, he worked with troubled youth in psychiatric units of area hospitals. He ended his teaching career in 1993. 

Mac had a great love for animals. He raised cattle, dogs, chickens, pigeons, peacocks, canaries, and numerous other animals, but horses were his greatest love. Mac is survived by two sons, William and Leo McDonald; two daughters, Julie Marshall and Amy Shields; grandchildren, Clarissa, Julia and Colette Shields, Bill Jr., Joe, and Mac McDonald; great-grandchildren, Caleb, Jacob, and Adrianne McDonald, and his aunt, Victoria Castiaux. 

The family wishes to express many thanks and gratitude to the many friends and family who were so supportive and compassionate and special recognition for the staff and doctors at KU Medical Center. They were more than physicians and associates, they were "caregivers".