Obit of Hooper-Jones Diane (h162) - Unknown County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 18 Aug 2004 Return to Unknown County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okstate.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== DIANE HOOPER-JONES Published on October 2, 1999 The Santa Rosa Press Democratt Diane Hooper-Jones believed in caring for others. When elderly neighbors in Oakmont couldn't get around, Hooper-Jones took them to their doctor's appointments. When a lonely friend called on Thanksgiving Day, Hooper-Jones went over and gave her a new hairdo. She volunteered at the Oakmont Community Church and at the battered women's shelter in Santa Rosa, donating clothing and offering her love. When lung cancer struck, she refused chemotherapy and radiation. "I'm going to out with dignity," she told her friend, Roseanne Cucero. And she did, Cucero said. "She was about the nicest person you'd ever want to meet. A ray of sunshine has died," Cucero said. Hooper-Jones was born in Oklahoma and later moved to the Bay Area. She worked as a fashion model for much of her life, and for a time was a cocktail waitress and manager of the Atherton Club, a private social club in Atherton. At various times, she also sold cars and real estate. She moved to Sonoma County in the 1970s and worked as a fashion model and as a seamstress. She and her husband, Kenneth Jones, loved to travel and she visited Greece shortly before her death. She is survived by her husband, Kenneth Jones of Oakmont; her children, Micheal Hooper of Waco, Tex., and LaVon Dorris of Spokane, Wash; her brother, Roy Briley of Anchorage, Alaska; her sisters, Della Morsbach and Iva Cartier; and her five grandchildren. Donations in her memory may be made to American Cancer Society or Memorial Hospice, 558 B St., Santa Rosa 95401 ======== DIANE HOOPER-JONES Published on October 5, 1999 The Santa Rosa Press Democratt Diane Hooper-Jones believed in caring for others. When elderly neighbors in Oakmont couldn't get around, Hooper-Jones took them to their doctor's appointments. When a lonely friend called on Thanksgiving Day, Hooper-Jones went over and gave her a new hairdo. She volunteered at the Oakmont Community Church and at Manna Home, a batteredwomen's shelter in Santa Rosa, donating clothing and offering her love. Hooper-Jones died Sept. 25. She was 67. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Unknown County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okstate.html