JOHN LEO JONES 1924-1992

SCHELLSMIDT, JONES, DUNDEE, STRAM, FULLER, CLARK, FREILINGER, KELLY

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 1/16/2005 at 20:15:22

John Jones

Funeral services for John Leo Jones were held Thursday, November 19, 1992 at 11:30 a.m. at Schultz's Funeral Home in Monona. Father Louis Trzil officiated. Organist was Barb Ruff. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery, Postville, Iowa. Honorary pallbearers were Greg Mosier, Emmett McCormick, Ramon Sass, Gene Mielke, Frank Woodson and Ted Green. Active pallbearers were Dennis Dundee, Ricky Jones, Randy Jones, Riggie Jones, Mike Kelly and Loren Jones.

Schultz's Funeral Home in Monona was in charge of services.

John Leo Jones was born August 25, 1924 in Harpers Ferry, Iowa, to parents Milo and Myrtle Schellsmidt Jones. He received his education in Ion Country School.

John served in the U. S. Army from 1945 to 1947. On April 11, 1951 he married Dorothy Dundee in Waukon, Iowa. To this union nine children were born. The couple made their home in Harpers Ferry. John worked for Hygrade in Postville for 25 years. He retired in 1981. In 1990 they moved to Monona.

John Leo died Monday, November 16, 1992 at Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital.

Preceding him in death were his parents and infant son, John Milo.

Surviving are his wife, Dorothy; four daughters, Janet Stram, Julie Fuller and Rosemary Clark, all of Prairie du Chien, WI, and Amy Freilinger of Waukon; four sons, David of Luana, Joseph of Marquette, Kevin and Jeffery both of Waukon; 27 grandchildren; two great grandchildren; one sister, Cleone Kelly of Houston, MN; four brothers, LeRoy and Earl both of Harpers Ferry, Lester of Dubuque and Jim of Prairie du Chien, WI.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.

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