Earl Lamont McDonald Jr.

Earl Lamont McDonald was born June 2, 1968 in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Earl and Janice McDonald. At seven years old on an end of year school trip to Clove Lake Park, Staten Island he drowned while playing In the lake. He was pronounced dead on arrival. But thanks to Jehovah, an ambulance driver who was visiting the park insisted that they take him to the hospital. He said many times the equipment they have cannot register a pulse or heartbeat. He was in a coma for six months and the doctors said the would never awaken and would become a vegetable. They told me I should let them put him In a nursing home and go home and take care of his younger brother. My aunt worked for a woman whose son was a doctor and invited him to visit my son at the hospital. He obliged, and indicated my son was in fact not in a coma, but the medicine they were giving him was making him unable to respond and we should take him home: which we did. My mother and sister Johnnie Mae worked on him day and night and took him to a holistic doctor who recommended we take him off the medications the doctors were prescribing and use vitamins and other holistic treatments to help him improve. He began to get better. But due to the traumatic brain Injury he sustained, he would again need to be trained on how to walk, and use the bathroom. It was a long road to get him to where he was and unfortunately he was disabled for life. However, eventually he was able to attend school for the handicapped and disabled, and graduated from Beach Channel High School. Earl loved his sister, brother, all his cousins, aunts, uncles, and the friends from the Kingdom Hall. He loved going to the meetings, Assemblies, Conventions, and learning about the day when he would be fully cured from all the maladies he suffered from as a result of that fateful day In Clove Lake Park. Earl loved people; he was an outgoing person and loved helping me around the house. He especially loved the trips we took with friends each year. He visited many Kingdom Halls in various states as well as Bethel in Niagara Falls and many other Interesting places during our travels. Earl attended the Cypress Hills Congregation when he lived In Brooklyn, and the Rosedale Congregation in Queens when he moved to Springfield Gardens. He attended one day of the Cypress Hills 2017 Regional Convention "Don't Give Up" this year. Earl, survived by his mother Janice McDonald-Deloach, brother Lloyd McDonald, sister Janice Marie Deloach, aunts, Johnnie Mae Hooten, Dolores Mills, and Barbara White, his two uncles Harold Hooten and Michael Hooten, and a host of cousins and very dear friends.

Earl Lamont McDonald Jr.

June 2, 1968 - August 1, 2017