In fact Donald was to remain at Liverpool as his only senior club for nineteen seasons only playing a final campaign in the Lancashire League before at thirty-eight finally hanging up his boots. In all he would muster over four hundred appearances for the Anfield team including two league titles in 1922 and 1923 as club captain and, on the way also be selected twice for Scotland, both in 1922 and at the age of thirty. Moreover, in 1913 he would marry in Liverpool, his bride Nellie Peel, with whom he would have two daughters. And finally he would spend the rest of his life on Merseyside, working in the pub and hotel business until retirement. 

However, by then Nellie had passed away, still in Liverpool in 1952 at the age of sixty-two. Donald would outlive her by seven years, dying in 1959 in the city's Broadgreen Hospital at sixty-nine to be cremated at Anfield Cemetery.