Visitation was from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday at Stasi-Grove Funeral Home in Olney. Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of the funeral home with Reverend Jeff Dickerson officiating.
Burial was in Crest Haven Memorial Park near Claremont.
Mrs. Jones was born on March 20, 1916, in Noble, the daughter of Ben and Ethel (Hughes) Parsons. She married Virgil Jones on December 4, 1937, in Noble. He survives.
She worked at the garment factory in Olney until it closed. She was a homemaker and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Mrs. Jones is survived by her husband of 66 years Virgil Jones, of Noble; two sisters, Margie Baker, of Noble, and Ida Dickerson, of Olney; two brothers, Charlie Parsons, of Fairfield, and Ben Everett Parsons, of Enid, Okla.; four grandchildren, Lorna Jones, of Houston, Texas, Gary Jones, of Olney, Leroy Jones, of Dundas, and James Jay Jones, of Quincy; two great-grandsons, Marcus Jones and Zane Feeley; and two nieces, Raejean Richardson, of Noble, and Peggy Orr, of Pine Hill Ala.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, Jerry Jones, and two sisters, Madelyn Stoltz and Pauline Bradford.
Memorials may be given to ERBA Headstart Program.
The Olney (IL) Daily Mail, August 2003
Visitation was from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday at Stasi-Grove Funeral Home in Olney. Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of the funeral home with Reverend Jeff Dickerson officiating.
Burial was in Crest Haven Memorial Park near Claremont.
Mrs. Jones was born on March 20, 1916, in Noble, the daughter of Ben and Ethel (Hughes) Parsons. She married Virgil Jones on December 4, 1937, in Noble. He survives.
She worked at the garment factory in Olney until it closed. She was a homemaker and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Mrs. Jones is survived by her husband of 66 years Virgil Jones, of Noble; two sisters, Margie Baker, of Noble, and Ida Dickerson, of Olney; two brothers, Charlie Parsons, of Fairfield, and Ben Everett Parsons, of Enid, Okla.; four grandchildren, Lorna Jones, of Houston, Texas, Gary Jones, of Olney, Leroy Jones, of Dundas, and James Jay Jones, of Quincy; two great-grandsons, Marcus Jones and Zane Feeley; and two nieces, Raejean Richardson, of Noble, and Peggy Orr, of Pine Hill Ala.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, Jerry Jones, and two sisters, Madelyn Stoltz and Pauline Bradford.
Memorials may be given to ERBA Headstart Program.
The Olney (IL) Daily Mail, August 2003
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