Thelma Jeane (Dix) Jones (2016)
JONES, DIX, NIDEY, SAMMONS, ELQUEST, DAVENPORT, RIPPERGER, WINSHIP
Posted By: Shirley Keating (email)
Date: 5/2/2016 at 22:39:42
Powers Funeral Home
Creston, IowaThelma Jones, Winterset formerly of Corning
Thelma Jones, 89, of Winterset formerly of Corning, died April 30, 2016 at Westbridge Care and Rehab Center in Winterset. Funeral service will be 1:00 p.m. Thursday May 5, 2016 at the Powers Funeral Home in Creston near the junction of highway 25 and 34. Pastor Mary O'Riley will officiate. Family will receive friends from 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. service time at the Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Burial will be in the Maple Hill Cemetery in Cromwell. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Central Iowa or a charity of your, choice. On line condolences may be left at www.powersfh.com .
Thelma Jeane Jones daughter of Fern (Nidey) and Vern Hubert Dix, was born April 7, 1927 in Grand Junction, Ia. Thelma graduated from Cromwell High School in 1945.
In 1946, Thelma was united marriage to Rex Sammons in Shreveport, La. They settled on a farm south of Cromwell where she was an active mother and farmwife. They later divorced and she moved to Creston in 1952 and began cleaning houses which she did until she retired in 2007. On October, 1988, Thelma was united in marriage to Leland Firm Jones at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They settled in Strawberry, Ariz. for a short time before returning to Corning in 2000 before she moved to Winterset in 2016.
Thelma is survived by a daughter Janet Elquest of Des Moines, Ia.; two brothers, Gerald (wife Ruth) Dix of Council Bluffs, Ia. and Hubert Dix, Jr. in Pontiac, Ill.; two sisters, Shirley (husband Merrill) Davenport of Adel and Karen (husband Mick) Ripperger of Grinnell, Ia.; sister-in-law Connie Dix of Phoenix, Ariz. and many nieces and nephews. Thelma was preceded in death by her parents, husband Leland Jones, a son Ronnie Sammons, three brothers, Robert Dix, Richard Dix and Forrest Dix and a sister, Frances Winship.
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