Morris Co., TX - Obits: Mrs. O. P. Jones
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Midland Rites Held for Mrs. Jones, 90, West Texas Pioneer
Midland, Texas - 4/29/1957

Funeral services for Mrs. O. P. Jones, 90, were held Tuesday in the Newnie W.
Ellis Chapel, with Dr. R. Matthew Lynn, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, officiating.

Interment was in Restland Memorial Park.

Pallbearers were J. D. Dillard, R. L. Merrill, E. M. Braselton, J. D. Sadler,
Murray Fasken, Joe Stewart of Wichita Falls, and Don and Robert Craft of
Monahans.

Mrs. Jones, widow of an early-day rancher and banker who built an empire in
the Panhandle, died Sunday in the home of Mrs. Peck, with whom she had lived
for 16 years.

Mrs. Jones, the former Josephine Wardlow, and Jones were married Dec. 22,
1892. He died in 1933 in Amarillo, the family home. Mrs. Jones was a native of
Daingerfield. After the death of Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones sold the family home in
Amarillo in 1941 and moved to Midland to live with her daughter and son-in-
law.

Mrs. Jones was born July 2, 1866 in Daingerfield, suffered a stroke two weeks
ago. After the marriage to Jones, they moved to Gregg County and then to
Roberts County where he organized a cattlemen’s exchange.

In 1904 they moved to Shamrock, where Mr. Jones organized the First National
Bank, and the first of several banking institutions he founded in that area.

The Jones’s moved to Amarillo in 1918, and he organized the Amarillo Livestock
Loan Company. While busy with the banking business, he also was active in
developing ranches in widespread areas throughout the Panhandle.

In 1904 he came to Midland to look over the land situation and subsequently
several of his cowboys arrived to file on land in this area. At one time he
owned some 200 sections of land south of Midland and Odessa and ran a herd of
10,000 cattle.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Hal C. Peck of Midland, a granddaughter
Patti Jo Peck of Midland, a sister Mrs. W. I. Allison of Cason; two brothers
O. E. Wardlow of Cason and John Wardlow of Pittsburg, and several nieces
including Mrs. Roy Parks of Midland.
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