Fern E. Jones 1920-1999

JONES UNKEL STEINHOFF

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/29/2012 at 13:55:34

HORNICK, Iowa — Fern E. Jones, 79, of Hornick died Saturday, Nov. 13, 1999, at a Sioux City hospital of lymphoma.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. John's Evangelical Church in German City, Hornick, Iowa, with the Rev. Jim Scallion and Dick Morgan officiating. Burial will be in Willow Township Cemetery, Holly Springs, Iowa. Visitation will be 2 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Christy-Smith Morningside Chapel in Sioux City.

Mrs. Jones was born May 26, 1920, in rural Hornick, the daughter of Theodore and Freda (Unkel) Steinhoff.

She graduated from Hornick High School in 1938 and Omaha Business School. She was employed as a bookkeeper with Brandeis Department Store in Omaha for a few years.

She married Orlie Jones on Feb. 14, 1942, in German City, Iowa. The couple farmed in the Hornick area.

She was a member of St. John's Evangelical Church and Dorcus Society. She was active in 4-H and the Hornick Depot Museum.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters and their husbands, Lynette and Jerry Spicer of Ames, Iowa, and Kristin and Roger Skelton of Rembrandt, Iowa; a brother and his wife, Wayne and Luella Steinhoff of Hornick; and six grandchildren, Foy, Clarissa and Carmi Spicer and Jacob, Matthew and Jessica Skelton.

Memorials may be directed to Hornick Depot Museum or Loess Ridge Nature Center.