Laura Jane (Burton) Jones (1870-1953)

BURTON, JONES, CLAWSON, HALL, HANKS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/6/2021 at 17:58:12

From Nevada Evening Journal May 21, 1953 (page 4)

Rites Held For Laura Jones

Funeral services were held in the Methodist church in Cambridge Friday afternoon, May 15, 1953 at 2 o'clock with the Rev. John F. Rex in charge.

Interment was in the Cambridge cemetery.

Mrs. Guy DeHoet and Mrs. Roy Gill, accompanied by Mrs. John Dyer at the piano, sang "No Night There," and "In the Sweet By and By."

Casket bearer were Orie Jones, Harry Cairns, Eugene Griffith, Kenneth Wilson, Earl Gardner, and Lester Dolph.

Flower arrangements were in charge of Mrs. Kermit Griffith and Mrs. John Scott.

Obituary

Laura Jane Burton, daughter of Jonathan and Francis Burton, was born at White Oak, south of Cambridge, Iowa, on December 25, 1870 and passed away at the Grayson Nursing home in Des Moines, Iowa, May 13 1953, at the age of 82 years.

She grew to womanhood and lived most of her life in the Cambridge community. It was here that she was united in marriage to James Jones in September 1891. One daughter, Ethel was born to them. Mrs. Jones was preceded in death by her husband in 1920.

She was one of the charter members of the United Brethren church in Cambridge and took a very active part in the work of the church as long as her health permitted. She lived for 25 years with her daughter in Cambridge. The last five years she had been in poor health; four years of which before her death she was cared for in the Grayson Nursing home.

Surviving are her daughter, Mrs. Wrex Clawson of Cambridge, four grandchildren, James and Gayle Clawson of Des Moines, Mrs. Arthur Hall of Elkhart and Ross Clawson of Cambridge and also three great grand children.

She was one of a family of seven children, all of whom had preceded her in death, but one sister, Mrs. Allie Hanks of Cambridge.

Mrs. Jones proved herself not only a wonderful mother but also a gracious and devoted grandmother in her daughter's home.