Obituary for
Willie Ferman Jones
submitted by Edgle Dyer
Willie Ferman Jones joined his Lord and Savior on April 6, 2006.
Services
were held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 10, at the Calvary Baptist Church with
Rev. Doug Puryear officiating. Interment will be in Terry County Memorial
under the direction of Brownfield Funeral Home.
Mr. Jones was born on June 30, 1913, in Jones County to the late James and
Alma Jones. He moved with his parents to Meadow in 1927 and moved to
Brownfield in 1939 where he married Connie Roe on Sept. 21, 1940.
They farmed in Terry County until their retirement in 1976. After
retiring, he
owned and operated Jones Trading Post for 20 years until moving to Lubbock in
1996. After the loss of his wife on March 26, 2002, after 61 years
of marriage,
Willie returned to Brownfield to live out his final years.
He was also preceded in death by one daughter, Sue Dell Leach, one son, Jimmy
Simmons and by two brothers and two sisters.
Those left here to celebrate his life and mourn his passing are his children:
Frances
Chidester of Kilgore, Theda Riskus of San Angelo and Joyce Light of Lubbock;
11 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Scott Bell, Kent Bell, Robert Light, Trey Hammett, Taylor
Richardson, Tyler Bell and Brad Hudson. The family will be
gathering for lunch
at noon in the Fellowship Hall of the Calvary Baptist Church.
Brownfield News
