Deseret News, Utah, April 3, 1991. EMMA ECCLES JONES, PHILANTHROPIST AND EDUCATOR, DIES AT 93.
Obituary: Emma Eccles Jones, 93, noted philanthropist, pioneer in early childhood education and the last surviving child of prominent Utahns David and Ellen Stoddard Eccles, died Friday, March 29, in her home in Piedmont, Calif. The Eccles family moved to Logan when Mrs. Jones was a child. She attended Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University), Radcliffe College and Harvard University and received a degree in English from the University of California-Berkeley.She established the first kindergarten program in Logan in cooperation with another Utah education pioneer, Edith Bowen. In 10 years of directing the program, Mrs. Jones contributed her salary toward supplies. After the death of her husband, LeGrande Jones, in 1937, she moved to California and directed an innovative child-care program at Mills College. She received a doctor of humanities degree from USU in 1985. A major contribution to the university, the Emma Eccles Jones Education Building, was dedicated in January 1990. She was a patron of the arts and significant contributor to opera, symphomy and ballet in California and Utah. The Emma Eccles Jones Foundation has been a source of philanthropy in Utah.
Preceding her in death were her parents; husband; brothers, Marriner S., Spencer S., George S. and Willard L. Eccles; and sisters, Marie Eccles Caine, Jessie Eccles Quinney, Nora Eccles Treadwell Harrison and Ellen Eccles Merrill Harrison. Mrs. Jones' funeral will be Thursday, April 11, at 1 p.m.in the Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, Calif. The family suggests contributions to a charity of choice in lieu of flowers.
Deseret News, Utah, April 3, 1991. EMMA ECCLES JONES, PHILANTHROPIST AND EDUCATOR, DIES AT 93.
Obituary: Emma Eccles Jones, 93, noted philanthropist, pioneer in early childhood education and the last surviving child of prominent Utahns David and Ellen Stoddard Eccles, died Friday, March 29, in her home in Piedmont, Calif. The Eccles family moved to Logan when Mrs. Jones was a child. She attended Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University), Radcliffe College and Harvard University and received a degree in English from the University of California-Berkeley.She established the first kindergarten program in Logan in cooperation with another Utah education pioneer, Edith Bowen. In 10 years of directing the program, Mrs. Jones contributed her salary toward supplies. After the death of her husband, LeGrande Jones, in 1937, she moved to California and directed an innovative child-care program at Mills College. She received a doctor of humanities degree from USU in 1985. A major contribution to the university, the Emma Eccles Jones Education Building, was dedicated in January 1990. She was a patron of the arts and significant contributor to opera, symphomy and ballet in California and Utah. The Emma Eccles Jones Foundation has been a source of philanthropy in Utah.
Preceding her in death were her parents; husband; brothers, Marriner S., Spencer S., George S. and Willard L. Eccles; and sisters, Marie Eccles Caine, Jessie Eccles Quinney, Nora Eccles Treadwell Harrison and Ellen Eccles Merrill Harrison. Mrs. Jones' funeral will be Thursday, April 11, at 1 p.m.in the Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, Calif. The family suggests contributions to a charity of choice in lieu of flowers.
Family Members
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Vida Eccles Savage
1882–1938
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Marriner Stoddard Eccles
1890–1977
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Marie Stoddard Eccles Caine
1892–1981
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Spencer Stoddard Eccles
1894–1965
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Jessie Stoddard Eccles Quinney
1896–1982
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George Stoddard Eccles
1900–1982
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Nora Stoddard Eccles Harrison
1902–1978
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Ellen Stoddard Eccles Harrison
1905–1973
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Willard Lincoln Eccles
1909–1985
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David Christin Eccles
1877–1941
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Leroy Eccles
1879–1936
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Royal Eccles
1884–1963
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Bertha Olivia Eccles Wright
1887–1956
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Lila Eccles Brimhall
1887–1980
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Joseph Merrill Eccles
1889–1945
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Flora Eccles Douglas
1894–1987
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Laura Eccles Romney
1894–1985
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William "Jack" Eccles
1895–1979
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Vivian Eccles Richards
1897–1946
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Albert Eccles
1899–1984
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Homer Gordon Eccles
1901–1975
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