CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Virginia Mabel Richardson Jones, 17 Jan 2004 ----¤¤¤---- Mrs. Virginia Mabel Richardson Jones, 83, Big Springs Road, Elizabethton, died Saturday, January 17, 2004, at Hermitage Health Center following a lengthy illness. Mrs. Jones was a native of Cabell County, W.Va., and a daughter of the late Alf and Mary L. Ward Richardson. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Fred D. Jones, and brothers and sisters. Mrs. Jones was a homemaker. Survivors include four sons and three daughters-in-law, James H. and Wanda Jones, Kingsport, Robert Jones, Elizabethton, Fred and Judy Jones, Johnson City, and Danny C. and Joan Jones, Elizabethton; two daughters and a son-in-law, Geraldine and Howard Smith, Morganton, N.C., and Paula M. Grindstaff, Elizabethton. Twelve grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services will be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday, January 19, in the Sunset Chapel of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home with the Rev. Kenneth Kyker officiating. Graveside services and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 20, at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be grandsons. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, prior to the service. Friends may call at the residence, 261 Big Springs Road, Elizabethton, at any time. Everyone will meet at the cemetery at 10:55 a.m. Tuesday for the graveside service. Online condolences may be sent to the family through our Web site at www.hathawaypercy.com. Arrangements are under the direction of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Elizabethton Star http://www.starhq.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------