McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    	W. B. JONES

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::Crown Hill Cemetery--Broken Bow OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper:

March 3, 1932

AGED CITIZEN DIED AT GOLDEN TUES.
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W.B. JONES PASSED AWAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS; FUNERAL HELD WEDNESDAY

W.B. Jones, aged 82 years, died at his home at Golden, ten miles west of
Broken Bow, at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, following an extending illness of paralysis
and pneumonia.  For the past year he had been confined to his home.  Mr.
Jones went to Golden serveral years ago from Louisiana, and up until his
health failed was employed as station agent for the T.O. & E. Railroad at
Golden.  He was well and favorably known and had a large number of friends in
this section of the state.

Mr. Jones was born at Baton Rouge, La., January 9, 1850, and was married to
Miss Stella Solomon on September 29, 1899.  To this union nine children were
born, all living except Miss May Jones, who passed away in Broken Bow in
1923, and was laid to rest in Crown Hill cemetery here.  The widow, three
sons and five daughters survive.  The sons are J.E. Jones, Venezula, South
America; Ernest Jones, Memphis, Tenn., and Robert Jones, Golden; the daughters
are: Mrs. J.W. Simpson, Broken Bow; Mrs. Ethyl Covington, Oklahoma City;
Mrs. L.A. Boyter, Bethany, La.; Mrs. E.F. Webb, Oklahoma City, and Miss Edyth
Jones, Golden, all of whom were present at the funeral.

Funeral services were held at the family residence at Golden Wednesday after-
noon at 2 o'clock by Rev. A.R. Luton, pastor of the First Methodist Church
of Broken Bow, and Rev. W.R. Merry, Baptist minister of Garvin.  Burial
followed in Crown Hill cemetery here under direction of Skaggs Funeral Home
of Idabel.

A quartet composed of Bill Boyce, Edwin Ives, Miss Ida Rush, and Miss Agnes
Hopson sang, with Mrs. I.E. Hughen as accompanist.

A large number of friends from Broken Bow and elsewhere were in . . . .
(the rest is missing)
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