Warren County IL Archives News.....Services Will Be Held Friday  August 15, 1950
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Unknown August 15, 1950
Funeral services for Mr. & Mrs. Russell F. Jones, their two children and their
grand-daughter will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the First
Nethodist chuch in Monmouth. Dr. T. E. Newland of Galesburg, a retired Methodist
minister and former district superintendent will be in charge of the services in
the absence of the Rev. Harry A. Cochran, pastor, now on the west. Burial will
be in Monmouth cemetery.

The bodies of the five members were returned to the Lugg Memoorial Chapel last
evening, after an inquest had been held during the afternoon in Menard county of
which Petersburg is the county seat. The bodies of Mr. & Mrs. Jones had been
taken to Athens and those of the three children to Petersburg, following the
airplane accident yesterday morning which brought death to the group.

Killed were Mr. & Mrs. Jones, both 53; Ivan Jones 18; Elizabeth Jones 14; and
Judy Rose Ricketts, 9. They had left Monmouth yesterday for the Illinois State
Fair and encountered fog near Sweetwater, where the plane crashed and burned,

Russell F. Jones was born at Kirkwood February 24, 1897, the son of Parker S.
and Sarah (Martin) Jones. Of his own family there survive a brother Leo Jones of
Kirkwood, and a sister Mrs. Lucille Smilie, wife of Kline Smilie of Rt. 3,
Athens Ohio.

edna K. Jones was born in Henderson county, March 7, 1897, the daughter of Clyde
E. and Elizabeth (Smith) Duke.Of her own family there survive a brother Earl
Duke of Galesburg and two sisters, Mrs. Marion Duke Lofgren, wife of Glaine
Lofgren of Galesburg; and Mrs. Nella Duke Campbell, wife of Dwight Campbell of
the Rozetta community.

Ivann C. Jones was born October 15, 1931 and had graduated in 1949 from
Biggsville high school. Elizabeth D. Jones, 14, was born April 9, 1936; and
grand-daughter Judy Rose Ricketts, 8, daughter of Charles E. and Marilyn Jones
Ricketts, was born at Monmouth, April 24, 1942. Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Marion Norwood of Durham, N. C., the former Jean Jones, and Mrs. Marilyn
Ricketts of Chicago.

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