Donald Allen Jones, Rev. (1995)

JONES, MCCOY, TALBOTT, BUNDT, ARMSTRONG, BRANT, MURDY

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 11/5/2006 at 22:43:34

Winterset Madisonian, November 15, 1995
Winterset, Iowa

Rev. Donald Jones, Carroll

The Rev. Donald Allen Jones, 73, of Carroll, died following heart surgery Nov. 9, 1995 at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. Funeral services were Nov. 11 at the Pleasant Ridge Community Church near Glidden. Pastor Keith Ellis officiated the services. Burial was at Hillcrest Cemetery in Moravia with the Rev. Clyde Sparks officiating the graveside rites.

He was born Feb. 7, 1922 near Moravia to Benjamin H. and Louise A (McCoy) Jones On June 12, 1945, he married Shirley Talbott who’s father, The Rev. George Talbott in officiated the marriage. He later married Anita Rose Bundt Brant on Nov. 23, 1990 at the United Methodist Church in Van Meter. He was a farmer until answering the call to the ministry. After retiring in 1986, he moved to Winterset. He was a member of the United Methodist Church; retired Ministerial Association; retired Methodist Ministers of the Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church; and was a volunteer for Hospice of Central Iowa.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Shirley; and one son.

Surviving relatives include his wife, Anita of Carroll; two daughters, Linda Armstrong and husband John of Van Meter and Donna Jones of Dora, Mo.; three step-sons, Ramon Brant and wife Michele of Glidden, Roger Brant and Bruce Brant of Glidden; one sister, Wanda Murdy and husband Wendell of Albia; one brother, Lyle Jones and wife Beatrice of Mentor, Ohio; two grandchildren; and one step-grandson.

Memorial contributions may be directed to a memorial fund in his name for Missionaries, Don and Eunice Coffman serving in Honduras.