Graveside services for Eli C. Jones, 83, Mexico Beach, Fla., will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Ron Goodman officiating. Military graveside honors will be conducted by the Alford-Clarke Post No. 852 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Jones died Wednesday, April 15, 1992, at Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla.
He was born Dec. 9, 1908, in Tonganoxie, the son of Richard and Mary Jane Hubbell Jones.
A former Lawrence resident, he had lived here before moving to Climax Springs, Mo., in 1976 and later to Florida.
Mr. Jones was a retired electrician and had worked at Huxtable and Associates in Lawrence. He was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the First United Methodist Church of Mexico Beach. An Army veteran of World War II, he also was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.
Mr. Jones was married to Wilma Yount Jones, and she preceded him in death. He later married Velma Keal, and she survives of the home.
Other survivors include a sister, Myrtle Wilson, Lawrence; a stepson, Fred Rapp, Perth, Australia; two stepdaughters, Martha Ruddell, Oakland, Calif., and Shirley Rapp, Kansas City, Mo.; seven stepgrandchildren; and three stepgreat-grandchildren.
Thursday, April 16, 1992 ljworld
Family Members
Parents
Richard R Jones
1862–1950
Mary Jane Hubbel Jones
1869–1936
Spouse
Wilma F Yount Jones
1910–1967
Siblings
Henry Guy Jones
1888–1937
Myrtle Ethel Mae Jones Wilson
1904–1999
