Frederick A. McDonald was the son of Donald A. McDonald and Elizabeth T. "Bess" McDonnell. He was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington. He was an Episcopalian priest, and served as an Episcopal Army champlain during WWII. He also served 5 years as the head master of the Iolani Boys School in Hawaii. He was an adventurous man, and lived in several different places before settling in San Francisco in 1978.

Related Items:
A video where Frederick himself talks about his life and experiences during WWII.
The McDonald Windows Project at the Interfaith Center in the Presidio of San Francisco.
Article from the San Francisco Chronicle on Frederick and the McDonald Windows Project.
Obituaries for his mother and sister Elizabeth.
Obituaries for his grandfather, Michael J. Scanlon, and uncles Thomas F., John, James P. Scanlon and aunt Catherine (Scanlon) Smyth.

Fredrick McDonald -- Episcopal canon
A memorial service will be held Friday for Fredrick McDonald, an Episcopal canon for nearly seven decades and a longtime member of the staff at St. Luke's Church in San Francisco.

Canon McDonald, 93, died March 9 after a short illness in a San Francisco retirement home.

A native of Seattle and a graduate of the University of Washington and the General Theological Seminary in New York, Canon McDonald was a merchant sailor, an Army chaplain during World War II and a clergyman in churches in Providence, Portland and Honolulu.

Following the war, he collected shards of stained glass from dozens of damaged European churches and synagogues. These are being assembled into a stained-glass historical display at the Interfaith Center in the Presidio of San Francisco.

In 1978, Canon McDonald moved to San Francisco and became a retired chaplain assistant at St. Luke's Church.

In 1991, on an arctic voyage aboard a Russian ice- breaker, he celebrated what was believed to be the first Eucharist at the North Pole.

He is survived by his sister, Elizabeth Parsons of Seattle.

The memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Van Ness Avenue at Clay Street, San Francisco.