Alice May Jones

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Alice May Jones passed away May 26, 2014 in Scott Town­ship, Alleghe­ny Coun­ty, Penn­syl­va­nia.

She was born March 16, 1928 in Ord, Nebras­ka, the only child of Ernest Melvin Hill and Helen Kjer­s­tine John­son. Her father was a cloth­ier who lost his busi­ness in the Depres­sion and returned to farm­ing; he died when she was five. Her moth­er was a teacher.

She attend­ed Sheri­dan High School (Wyoming), Hast­ings Col­lege (Nebras­ka), and Glen­dale Col­lege, where she received an AA degree. She majored in art and stud­ied music, lan­guages, and lit­er­a­ture.

On Sep­tem­ber 21, 1949, she mar­ried Carl Lawrence Jones. They raised five chil­dren in the San Fer­nan­do Val­ley and Simi Val­ley. She start­ed a nurse’s reg­istry, and lat­er pur­sued arts and crafts, includ­ing paint­ing, macramé, cro­chet, knit­ting, and wood­work­ing. She liked to trav­el. On one of her trips, she fell in love with Albu­querque, New Mex­i­co, where she retired with her hus­band. After Car­l’s death in 2003, she lived with and near her chil­dren in Cal­i­for­nia, North Car­oli­na, and Penn­syl­va­nia.

She was pre­ced­ed in death by a daugh­ter, Jana Jones. She is sur­vived by four chil­dren: Jacque­line Abra­ham of Swiss­vale, Penn­syl­va­nia; Jonathan Jones of Acton; James Jones of Simi Val­ley; and Jor­dan Jones of Raleigh, North Car­oli­na; as well as three cousins, sev­en grand­chil­dren, five step grand­chil­dren, and six great grand­chil­dren.

A com­mem­o­ra­tion will be held at 10 a.m. Wednes­day, June 4th, at the Rose Fam­i­ly Funer­al Home, 4444 Cochran St, Simi Val­ley. Inter­ment will fol­low at Oak­wood Memo­r­i­al Park, 22601 Lassen St, Chatsworth. In lieu of flow­ers, the fam­i­ly requests dona­tions be made to the Alzheimer’s Asso­ci­a­tion at https://act.alz.org/goto/alicejones