Boundary County ID Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Martin Noble March 20, 2003
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Bonners Ferry Herald, Thursday, March 20, 2003
Martin Noble Jones, 84, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 20, 2003
March 10, 2003 at his home near Bonners Ferry, Idaho after an extended illness.
   Funeral services were held on Thursday, March 13, 2003 in the Bonners Ferry
funeral Home in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.  Graveside services were held on Saturday,
March 15, 2003 in the West Hills Memorial Park in Yakima, Wash.
   Martin was born in Kaycee, Wyoming on March 24, 1918 to James and Anna Jones,
and he was the youngest of six children.  He moved to Sadis with his family at
the age of 11.  He attended grade school in Sadis and graduated high school from
Granger High.  Martin met and wed Marcelene Jackson in Sunnyside, Wash. on June
14, 1940.  He enlisted in the Air Force on March 15, 1944 and served as a tail
gunner and was an accomplished pilot.  He was discharged in April of 1946 at the
rank of corporal.
   Martina and his wife and one year old daughter Marcelene Nancy, established
their home in Brownstown where he did farm work and share cropped.  In 1956 they
moved to Harrah, Wash. to manage a hop ranch.
   Their family had grown to three children, a boy, Martin Gary Jones, and a
son, Steven Noble Jones.  Martin loved to make things for his children.  He made
one of the first Pogo sticks and go-carts.  Among other fun things he loved
spending time with his children/ he also lived fishing, hunting, and most of all
flying.  He sold his prize possession, a 1926 Model A, for $100 to join a flying
club.  He loved to go flying in the wee hours of the morning.
  In 1971 while vacationing in Bonners Ferry, Idaho he was approached by
Boundary County hop growers to move to Bonners Ferry to lay out and plant the
hop fields for Coors Corporation.
    He moved with his wife and sons to Bonners Ferry and built a home.  He
worked the hop fields for 12 years before retiring.  He then worked for Quants
for a year before making a trip to Alaska where he and Marceline spent the
summer with his niece, Pauline, fishing and exploring the country.
   Upon returning to Bonners Ferry, he continued working for Quant for a few
moths.  He then went to work for county Road and Bridge.  He then decided to
pursue his love of fishing, he got a boat hooked it to his camper and he and
Marcelene went fishing.  The Columbia River saw them a good many times hauling
in sturgeon and enjoying good times.
   In later years he decided he was ready to own the miniature horses he’d been
dreaming of.  He enjoyed playing with his two mares and foals until his death.
   He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Marcelene Jones of Bonners Ferry,
Id.; daughter Marcelene A. Pratt of Spokane, Wash; two sons; Martin Gary Jones
and Steven N. Jones both of Bonners Ferry, Id.; five grandchildren James Holman
of Arizona; Marissa Jones of Mesa, Ariz.; Kenny Jones of Bonners Ferry, Id.;
Christopher Jones of Spokane, Wash., Jason Jones of Bonners Ferry, Id.; two
great grandchildren Christine Nancy Holman and Joseph Lewis Holman both of
Spokane.  We will all miss him.
   Martin is preceded in death by his parents James and Anna and his siblings
Berth, Jesse, Sena, Helen, and Roland.




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