Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, June 1, 2020 at the McDonald Chapel Cemetery in Collins for Betty J. McDonald, 79 of Collins, who passed away on Friday, May 29, 2020 at the Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg.

Brother Gary Roberts and Brother Grover Gunn will officiate at the services with interment to follow in the McDonald Chapel Cemetery in Collins.  Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins will be in charge of the arrangements.

Visitation will be held from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. on Monday, June 1, 2020 at the Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins.

Pallbearers will be Michael Wade, John D. Lott, John Brown, Phillip Lott, Luke Parker, and Matthew Lott.

Mrs. McDonald was born on December 31, 1940 in Magee, Mississippi.  She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and sister.  Mrs. McDonald retired from the Simpson County Sheriff's Office as a deputy sheriff and jailer.  She was a member of the McDonald Chapel Presbyterian Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul E. McDonald; her parents, John Henry Brown and Ocie Audell Sellers Brown; one brother, Rafael Brown; and one sister, Judy Carol Brown.

Survivors include two sons, Terry J. McDonald of Collins, and John Paul Brown, and his wife, Kelly of Magee; two grandchildren, Bethany Danielle McDonald and Terrance Matthew McDonald; one great-grandson, Cayden D. McDonald; three brothers, Harold Brown of Mount Olive, Ricky Brown of Brandon, and Reggie Brown of Mendenhall; two sisters, Ann McLeod and Connie Coley, both of Mount Olive; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Family and friends may sign an online guestbook at www.billymkingcolonialchapel.com