FORT WORTH, Texas — Six weeks after the attack that killed David McDonnall and three other International Mission Board (IMB) aid workers in Iraq, Carrie McDonnall stood with the aid of a walker before a gathering of colleagues, family and friends at a memorial service for her husband. She was on a medivac flight en route to the United States when he was buried in March. She sent a personal message to be read at graveside services for her husband. Van Payne, McDonnall’s spokesman, said, “Carrie sent a message to [David’s family] that included Scripture verses and remembrances of her life with David, to be read at the graveside by her sister.”
Since then, McDonnall has been hospitalized and in rehabilitation recovering from her wounds. It was her first opportunity to participate in a service for her husband.
Two songs written in his honor were sung, one delivered via the Internet from a co-worker in the Middle East. Video clips were shown, one produced by students who knew McDonnall when he was a student at the seminary celebrated his storytelling.
IMB President Jerry Rankin told the gathering that the gunmen who shot McDonnall “could not take what he had already given.”
Memorial services for others killed in the March 15 attack — Karen Watson of Bakersfield, Calif., and Larry and Jean Elliott of Cary, N.C. — were held in April.
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