Eaton County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Jones, Jason Mathew 
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Cemetery:           Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery
Name:               Jason Mathew Jones

Date Of Photograph: July 26, 2009
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Headstone located in Section A

SON - BROTHER - DAD
        AND
FRIEND TO EVERYONE

JASON MATHEW JONES
JUNE 19, 1972 - MAY 26, 1996
WE LOVE YOU AND WE MISS YOU

Inscription on top of stone reads as follows:

I'll lend you for a little time, a child of mind, He said.
For you to love while he lives, and more when he is dead.

It may be six or seven years, or twenty-two or three.  But
will you, till I call him back, take care of him for me?

He'll bring his charms to gladden you, and shalt his stay be brief,
You'll have his lovely memories as solace for your grief.

I cannot promise he will stay, since all from earth return,
But there are lessons taught down there I want this child to learn.

I've looked the wide world over in my search for teachers true,
And from the thrones that crowd life's lanes, I have selected you.

Now will you give him all your love, not think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call, to take him back again?

I've fancied that I heard them say, "Dear Lord, They will be done.
For all the joy Thy childshall bring, the risk of grief we'll run.

We'll shelter him with tenderness, we'll love him while we may,
And for the happiness we've known, will ever grateful stay.

But shall the angles call for him much sooner than we planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes, and try to understand.

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