JONES, Genevieve Catherine

JONES, OSTERGAARD, TERKELSEN, JOHNSON, GIFFORD, SJOBERG

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 2/11/2008 at 15:03:31

GENEVIEVE C. JONES

Funeral services for Genevieve Jones, 92, of Kissimmee, FL formerly of Aurelia, will be 10:30 A.M. Friday, February 1, 2008, at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cherokee, with Pastor Jim Steen officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, rural Aurelia. Visitation will be Thursday from 2:00 to 8:00, with the family being present from 6:00 to 8:00, at the Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cherokee.

Genevieve died Wednesday, January 23, 2008, at Kissimmee, FL.

Genevieve Cathrine Ostergaard was born June 20, 1915, the daughter of Julius N. and Christine B. (Terkelsen) Ostergaard near Dike, IA. She attended school in Cedar Falls graduating from Cedar Falls High School in 1933. Then attended and graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls with a B.S. in Business in 1937. Genevieve was a schoolteacher and while teaching in Correctionville, Iowa is where she meet and later married Paul R. Jones on June 1, 1941, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The couple made there home in Aurelia where they farmed. Genevieve was an active member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cherokee where she was the first woman being voted on the Church Council. She enjoyed playing cards competing in bridge tournaments well into her 90’s. She enjoyed keeping up with eight of her high school classmates with a chain letter they started in 1933 and is still active today. She was very proud of her Danish roots celebrating special holidays with her homemade ableskivers and Krispy Bars. In 1981 they retired to Kissimmee, FL.

Preceding Genevieve in death were her parents, infant son, Clayton Howard in 1953, one sister, Ardell and her husband Roy Johnson.

Survivors include her husband Paul of Kissimmee, FL, one daughter Janis Gifford and her partner Tom Sjoberg of Kissimmee, FL, three sons and their wives, Ron and Sue Jones of Aurelia, Roger and Betty Ann Jones of Kissimmee, FL, and Bruce and Deena Jones of Aurelia, 12 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren, one nephew Jerry Johnson of North Carolina, former daughter-in-law Kathy Jones of South Dakota, and other relatives and friends.