Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, William J., 1965 

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WILLIAM JONAS JONES

   WHALEYVILLE - William Jonas Jones, 61, principal of Whaleyville High School 
for 37 years, died Sunday at 10 p.m. in his home after illness of a few months.

   He went to Whaleyville as principal after serving as assistant principal 
and coach at Cypress High School in 1926-27.  In 1958, he was named out-
standing teacher of Nansemond County by the Suffolk - Nansemond County Chamber 
of Commerce.

   After receiving his bachelor of arts degree at the College of William and 
Mary, he continued his education at New York University, Columbia University, 
the University of Michigan, VPI and the University of Virginia.

   Jones served three terms as president of the Nansemond County Education 
Association and held this same position in the District B. Principals 
Association.  He was chairman of District B, Virginia High School League, and 
a member of the state principals’ advisory committee.

   Active in community life, he was a member of the board of directors of the 
Suffolk-Nansemond County Red Cross Chapter and was chapter chairman from 1961 
to September 1964.  He was a director of the Virginia Tuberculosis Association.

   Jones was the first president of the Nansemond County Community Chest, a 
member of the Whaleyville Ruritan Club, serving as president in 1936, and was 
Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 13.

   A member of Great Fork Baptist Church, he was on its board of trustees and 
board of deacons, taught the Sydney Cobb Sunday School Class for young men and 
led the Royal Ambassadors of the church 32 years.

   Jones was also a member of Nansemond County Democratic executive committee.

   He was born in the family’s ancestral home in South Quay, Nansemond County, 
to the late William Abraham and Mrs. Eva Virginia Lawrence Jones and in 1933 
married the former Mary Lee Godwin of Chuckatuck, who died in 1953.  His wife 
was the sister of Lt. Gov. Mills E. Godwin, Jr.

   Survivors are three sons, William J. Jones Jr., Mills Godwin Jones and Webb 
Darden Jones of Whaleyville; a sister, Miss Jennie Lee Jones of Richmond; two 
brothers, James E. Jones and Joseph J. Jones of South Quay, and his 
stepmother, Mrs. Emma H. Jones of Whaleyville.

   A funeral service was held Tuesday in Great Fork Baptist Church, 
Whaleyville, by the Rev. Emil A. Mialik and the Rev. L.F. Smith.  Burial was 
in Cedar Hill Cemetery.  The body was in Hill Funeral Home, Suffolk.


William Jonas JONES, educator & civic leader, 
b. South Quay, Nansemond Co., d. 25 Apr 1965, at home, Whaleyville, age 61, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block W, Lot 21), Suffolk, 27 Apr 1965, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 29, 1965, p. 5 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_j.txt 


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