William Byron Jones (1937)

JONES, LOUCKS, NELLIS, DUNLAP, GILES, NICHOLS, OSMOND, CHAMBERS, PEASE, CULLEN, HILL

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Date: 9/24/2006 at 22:09:16

Earlham Library Obituaries, November 1937
Earlham, Iowa

FUNERAL SERVICE FOR W. B. JONES IS HELD

Former Local Resident, Died In Montana; Service Here Today; Burial in Stuart Cemetery.

W. B. Jones, 79 died Wednesday, November 11 at Worden, Montana, after being in failing health for some time. Mr. Jones was a former local resident and was engaged in the hardware business here about 30 years ago.

The body, accompanied by Mr. Jones’ son, Ivan arrived here Tuesday evening. A funeral service in charge of Rev. Burnette is being held this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Welch Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Stuart cemetery at Stuart.

OBITUARY

William Byron Jones, the oldest son of Elizah and Elizabeth Jones was born in Holmes county, Ohio, July 20, 1858.

In early childhood he moved with his parents to Iowa locating near Stuart. It was there he grew to manhood.

On March 8, 1882 he was united in marriage to Kate Loucks. Eight children were born to this union Myrtle Nellis and Chloe Dunlap of Earlham, Iowa; Nell Giles and Clarence Jones of Seattle, Washington; Ivan Jones of Anaconda, Montana; and Hazel Nichols of Shannon City, Iowa, all of whom remain to mourn his passing. Wilma Osmond and Zola Jones together with the wife, preceeded (preceded) him in death several years ago.

For several years he was a hardware merchant in Earlham. In 1908 he moved to Shannon City, Iowa, five years later moving to Montana, where he was living at the time of his death.

He was a loving, tender father. After the passing of the daughter Wilma, he did his best to take the place of a mother to her children, living in the home and caring for them.

For some time he had been in poor health and on November 11, 1937 at the age of 79 years, three months, and 22 days he made his crossing from here to the beyond.

Besides the six children he is survived by eighteen grandchildren, thirteen great grandchildren, four sisters; Mrs. Villa Chambers, of Greenfield, Iowa; Mrs. Ella Pease of San Francisco, California; Mrs. Alma Cullen of Stuart, Iowa; Mrs. Gertrude Hill of Des Moines, Iowa; two brothers, Milton and John of Stuart, and a host of other relatives and friends.