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- The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)
September 9, 1998
Graveside services for Julius R. McDonnell, 83, will be at 10:15 a.m. today at Riverside National Cemetery. He died Sept. 2 of heart disease at Riverside Community Hospital.
Mr. McDonnell, who was born in Byars, Okla., lived in Riverside 42 years. He worked for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department for 10 years, first in transportation and later as bailiff for Riverside Superior Court Judge J. William Mortland. He retired in 1978. Previously he was an aviation analyst for Rohr Aircraft Corp. in Riverside and North American Aviation for 11 years.
He served in the U. S. Army Air Corps from 1934 until he was discharged in 1943 with the rank of master sergeant. He was an airplane and engine mechanics instructor at Hickam Field in Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was bombed. He attended many Pearl Harbor survivor reunions. After his discharge, he enrolled in the U. S. Air Force officer candidate school and retired from the service in 1954 with the rank of captain.He played football and basketball while in high school and in the military. Mr. McDonnell was a member of the Victoria Shrine Club in Riverside and the Masonic Lodge York Rite for 52 years.
He enjoyed playing guitar and singing. He also played golf and competed in the 1952 British Amateur Open.
Mr. McDonnell is survived by three daughters, Jeanette Vanderpool of Riverside, Ramona Pack of Long Beach and Shelley Ostrowski of Arizona; four sons, Julius Jr. of Riverside, Dennis of Mojave Valley, Ariz., Patrick of Sandwich, Ill. and Norman of Pasadena, Texas; 17 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two brothers, Don of Oakhurst and Sam of Dallas; and two sisters, Pauline Rose of Coalinga and Marge Conger of Lubbock, Texas.
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1915 - 1998 (83 years)
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