Margaret Picken Jones (1994)

JONES, DICKEY, PICKEN, FORD, GRUBBS, BOOTS, LATHRUM

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 8/20/2006 at 19:48:56

Winterset Madisonian
March 9, 1994

Margaret Picken Jones

Margaret Charlotte Picken Jones, 100, of Winterset, died March 3, 1994 at the Winterset Care Center South. Funeral services were held at Collins Funeral Home on March 7, 1994 with the Rev. David Bauer officiating the services. Burial was at the Winterset Cemetery.

She was born December 23, 1893 to William John and Martha (Dickey) Picken near St. Marys. She married Lloyd F. Jones in Winterset on Oct. 8, 1913. She was a homemaker and a resident of Madison County since the age of two. She was a member of the First United Presbyterian Church and the Zion Federated Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband; one daughter; three sisters; and two brothers.

Surviving relatives include one son, Lyle A. Jones and wife Charlene of Oelwein; four daughters, Garnetta Jones of Winterset, Kathryn Ford of Long Beach, Calif., Geraldine Grubbs and husband LaVerne of Creston, and Doris Boots and husband Robert C. of Des Moines; one brother-in-law, Glen Lathrum of St. Charles; 14 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren and one step-great-grandchild.

Memorials may be directed to the Zion Church (Madison County Historical Complex) or the First United Presbyterian Church.