 His young widow, Orme Augusta Marsh Macdonald, née Bell (18 May 1914 – 11 February 2008), in 1947 married again to widowed solicitor Hubert Silvers Black (17 January 1906 – 22 October 1985), son of mine manager Robert Silvers Black.He died at Maleny in September 1977.MacDonald, representing the Country Party, won the seat of Stanley at the 1938 Queensland state election.