Obit of Jones, Velma Lorene [Harris] - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 19 Nov 2004 Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== :Cement Cemetery--Cement OK The Chickasha Express-Star 3 November 2004 VELMA LORENE JONES Funeral service for Velma Lorene Jones, age 82, of Chickasha, were held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 1, 2004, in the McRay Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Larry Hatfield officiated. Velma Lorene Jones was born the daughter of Charley Frank Harris and Alpha Susan Clift on October 27, 19022, in Caddo County, Oklahoma. She died October 28, 2004, in Chickasha. Velma married Earl C. Jones on December 10, 1941, in Fletcher, Oklahoma. During World War II, she moved to California and worked in the shipyards as a welder. She later moved to Coahoma, Texas. In 1960, she moved to Chickasha where she began working at Montgomery Wards as a clerk. She also managed the concession stand at Shannon Springs Park. Velma loved the outdoors. She also enjoyed bowling and was on the women's bowling league for thirty years. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Opal Daphene Dacus and Eva Hammonds, brother, Bobby Edward Harris, and her husband, Earl C. Jones. Survivors include her brother, Virgil Harris and wife, Zella, of Chickasha; brother, Lee Harris and wife, Lorene, of Odessa, Texas; sister, Elaine Felton, of Chickasha; numerous nieces and nephews. Interment was in the Cement Cemetery. Services were under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html