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Submitted: 5/13/14 • Approved: 5/13/14 • Last Updated: 5/16/14 • R1001449-G0-S3
Dec 24,1926-June 3,1979
Husband of Nancy Lee Wyatt Knowles Jones
Husband of Laurel Gaylord Jones
Dewell Jones, 52, of 1100 Gutensohn, Springdale, died Sunday morning, June 3 in Springdale Memorial Hospital. He was born December 24, 1926, in Kingston, the son of Robert Clell and Daisy Inman Jones, and was a member of the Calvary Free Will Baptist Church. He worked for Heekin Can Company for 28 years, was an Army veteran of World War II, a graduate of Huntsville High School, and moved to Springdale from Huntsville in 1952.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Laurel Gaylord Jones of the home; two sons, Orville Lee Jones of Greenbrier, and Jared Jones of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Predetta Kell of Texarkana, Texas; a step-son, Tol Ivy of Bentonville; his father and stepmother, Clell and Opal Jones of Huntsville; a step-brother, Charles "Sonny" Baker of La Mirada, Calif; a step-sister, Mrs. L.D. (Jo Ann) Dennis of Huntsville; and three grandchildren.
Services were at 10 o'clock a.m. Wednesday, June 6, in Sisco Chapel in Springdale. Interment was in the Huntsville Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Larry Childres, Ronald Wright, Sam Maxwell, L.D. Dennis, Troy Dennis, and Darrell Lockhart.
Contributed on 5/13/14 by bill060
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