Harold Wade (Mac) McIntosh, Sr.

Greene County Indiana History 1885-1989 Pg. 324

Harold W. McIntosh Sr. – Harold W. McIntosh Sr., was born on July 24, 1903, the son of William B. and Daisy Vandeventer McIntosh of Highland Township, Greene county, Indiana. He attended grade school at Kelly School, in Highland township and graduated from Worthington High School in 1920. He has been engaged in farming all his life in the rural Highland township area, north of Calvertville. His crops were mainly tobacco, corn, soy beans, and hay, which was fed to his Hereford cattle.

Mr. McIntosh, known as “Mac” by his friends, began driving a school bus in the fall of 1937 to Worthington from Highland township, and drove the same route for twenty-two years. In 1959, Highland township consolidated with Bloomfield School District and Mac began driving to Bloomfield, retiring in the spring of 1987, when his contract expired. He drove to Bloomfield twenty-four years making a total of forty-six years of school bus driving. He was out four years, 1975-1979, when Bloomfield School placed an age limit on Bus Drivers.

In 1950, Mr. McIntosh was named “Man of the Year’ by the Lions Club of Worthington, for outstanding service as a School bus driver, often transporting pupils through, outstanding service as a School bus driver, often transporting pupils through, Bloomifled, miles out of his way when Whiter River bridge on State Road 157 was closed for repairs and when 157 was inundated. His bus carried children to Fort Wilson, Smith, Calvertville, Worthington and Bloomfield Schools. He has hauled his wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to school.
Mr. McIntosh and Pearl Jones, daughter of Frank and Anna Jackson Jones of Newark community were married on April 12, 1924. They were the parents of two children: Harold W. McIntosh, Jr. born September 5, 1925 and Doris Pauline, born March 23, 1928. Pearl died October 5, 1938.
On April 16, 1939, Harold McIntosh, Sr. and Catherine L. Crody, born October 4, 1921 daughter of Truman W. and Bessie Stalcup Crodt were married at Greencastle, Indiana during her senior week at Worthington High School. She had ridden his bus the past two years. Before Harold began driving the bus in 1937, Catherine and a neighbor girl walked for two years to Farmer’s Ferry, and the ferryman rowed them across White River in a row boat to boad a bus to Worthington School. Mr. McIntosh started playing baseball at age thirteen and played until he was sixty. He played many years with the Grays at Worthington, at Bartley Field.

He joined the Knights of Pythuias Lodge at Newark in 1924. Later he and his father transferred their membership to Worthington Lodge. In 1974, he received a Fifty year pin and in 1987, received the rank of the Golden Spur. He also was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Worthington.
On June 23, 1987, Mr. McIntosh was injured in a tractor accident while mowing hay in the river bottom, south of Farmer’s Ferry. As a result, he lost his right leg below the knee. After a period of recuperation and a new prosthesis, he was back doing all the things he loved to do on his farm. He is now eighty five years old. Submitted by: Catherine Crody McIntosh.

Bloomfield News 4 Sep. 1997, Thursday Harold W. McIntosh Sr., 94, Bloomfield, died Sunday Aug. 31, at Bloomington Hospital.

Born July 24, 1903, in Greene county, he was the son of William B. and Daisy (Vandeventer) McIntosh.

Taking his study under Farmer Burns, he was the Champion wrestler of t local renown. Also, he had bee a baseball player in his early years, on the roster of different baseball teama generated in that era in the towns and communities of Owen and Greene county.
A graduate of Worthington High School, he was the Valedictorian of his class and was also an alumni of Purdue University. He was a life-long farmer.

He operated a school buss for Worthington and later at Bloofield Schools for 46 years. The Worthington Lions Club proclaimed him “Man of the Year” in 1950.

A 76-year member of the Worthingto Lodge #253 Knights of Pythias Fraternal Order, he was selected to receive the orders highest honor. In a ceremony, he was dubbed Sir Knight Harold W. McIntosh Sr. and awarded the Golden spur. In this lodge he holds the longest record for weekly attendance. He was a 40-year member of Greene county Lodge #577, Fraternal Order of Free and Acceptance Masons.
Survivors include his wife Catherine Lucille (Crody) McIntosh, one son, Harold W. McIntosh Jr. of Highland township; one daughter, Doris Pauline (McIntosh) Moulden of Elnora; none grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, 10 great great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ada Pearl (Jones) McIntosh; and one grandson.

Services were 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept 3, at Welch & Cornett Funeral Home in Worthington with the Rev. Ray Moulden officiating. Burial was in Worthington cemetery.

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