The unexpected death of Keith McDonald, who succumbed to COVID at age 59 in August 2021, left a gaping hole not only in his family, but in the small towns of Milledgeville and Sandersville, Georgia, where the master plumber had built a well-known plumbing company — Keith McDonald Plumbing.
“Every single person around here knew my dad,” says his daughter, Lindsay Goodson, a master plumber herself who helped her father run the company, established in 2002. “He was a pillar in the community.”In the weeks that followed, Goodson and her mother, Robin McDonald, who co-owned the business with her husband, faced





















