Joseph McDonald

April 22, 1941 – May 21, 2001

Boston Globe, The (MA) - May 24, 2001

Joseph M. McDonald, a retired captain in the Middlesex County Sheriff's Department, died of cancer Monday in his home in Woburn. He was 60.

Mr. McDonald was a member of the sheriff's department for 28 years until his retirement in 1993.

Born in Boston, he served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

A car buff, he worked at Bonnell Ford in Winchester in his retirement.

He leaves his wife, Joan M. (Pellegrini); a daughter, Nancy of Woburn; and a sister, Debra J. Twomey of Woodbridge, Va.

A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Barbara Church in Woburn. Burial will be in Woodbrook Cemetery in Woburn.