Mary Effie Jones

She was born in Fordyce, AR the daughter of the late James Llewellyn and Josephine Emily Hunt Jacobs. She attended schools in Fordyce and Dyess, AR.She was employed at Memphis at Fisher and Sears. She married Roy Hugh Jones July 26, 1946 in Mississippi. They made their home in the Glendale Community all their married life, where they farmed and she worked at Salant & Salant Mfg. and later at the First Methodist Church in the Nursery and Mother’s Day Out. She was a member of the Holly Springs Methodist Church.



She is survived by a daughter, Kathy Waldrip of Texas, step daughters, Marcia Moore of Henderson and Wilma Engle of Wisconsin; a step son, Sonny Jones of Lexington; a brother, Lester Jacobs of Luray; son in-law, Kurt Kimmins of Henderson; 12 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and 8 great great grandchildren; and also nieces and nephews.



She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Hugh Jones, July 20, 2007, a daughter, Judy Kimmins in 2002, sisters, Gladys Keel and Myrtle Fletcher, brothers, James Jacobs and an infant brother.