Jody Elizabeth Jones, 80, passed in her sleep Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, in Haslett, Michigan.
She was born Clara Jo Jones on Feb. 18, 1934, in Lafayette, Georgia, the seventh of nine children for John Homer Jones and Clara Elizabeth Thompson Jones. She was called Jody from her earliest days and later changed her name legally.
Jody graduated from Kathleen High School in Lakeland, Florida, and moved to Michigan to stay with a sister with plans to move West and work for the National Parks Service. Instead, she married Raymond Ned Fink on June 25, 1954, and became a southern lady who would live the rest of her life in the North. Together, they had four children in Williamston, Michigan.
On her own after the children had grown, Jody was an entrepreneur, Realtor and owner of adult foster care homes in Lansing and Stockbridge. She was an early adopter of technology, from her first car phone in the 1980s to staying connected on Facebook in her retirement. She volunteered for many years with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, as well as helping to found Williamston's annual Jubilee. Jody enjoyed being on the water, travel and singing, and she took up oil painting in her sixties. She often said, “The joy is in the journey.”
Along with her parents and siblings, Jody was preceded in death by her firstborn daughter, Weaver Rose Habl, and granddaughter, Nikki Ylon Fink.
She is survived by children Carol Valor, Anne and Tim Daniel, and Eric Fink and Lesa Johnson, and son-in-law James Bloomfield. She was Nana to six grandchildren: Jodi and Eric Friedman, Phill McFarland and Jenny Van Riper, Ray McFarland, Ray Valor, Nick Johnson and Loni Fink; and five great-grandchildren: Eden, Ava and Seth Friedman, Haylie McFarland and Xander Combs.
The family will welcome friends and relatives for her internment at East Lawn Memorial Gardens, 2400 Bennett Road, Okemos, at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. Her cremains will be interred alongside her sister, Mildred Lake and their mother.
In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
She was born Clara Jo Jones on Feb. 18, 1934, in Lafayette, Georgia, the seventh of nine children for John Homer Jones and Clara Elizabeth Thompson Jones. She was called Jody from her earliest days and later changed her name legally.
Jody graduated from Kathleen High School in Lakeland, Florida, and moved to Michigan to stay with a sister with plans to move West and work for the National Parks Service. Instead, she married Raymond Ned Fink on June 25, 1954, and became a southern lady who would live the rest of her life in the North. Together, they had four children in Williamston, Michigan.
On her own after the children had grown, Jody was an entrepreneur, Realtor and owner of adult foster care homes in Lansing and Stockbridge. She was an early adopter of technology, from her first car phone in the 1980s to staying connected on Facebook in her retirement. She volunteered for many years with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, as well as helping to found Williamston's annual Jubilee. Jody enjoyed being on the water, travel and singing, and she took up oil painting in her sixties. She often said, “The joy is in the journey.”
Along with her parents and siblings, Jody was preceded in death by her firstborn daughter, Weaver Rose Habl, and granddaughter, Nikki Ylon Fink.
She is survived by children Carol Valor, Anne and Tim Daniel, and Eric Fink and Lesa Johnson, and son-in-law James Bloomfield. She was Nana to six grandchildren: Jodi and Eric Friedman, Phill McFarland and Jenny Van Riper, Ray McFarland, Ray Valor, Nick Johnson and Loni Fink; and five great-grandchildren: Eden, Ava and Seth Friedman, Haylie McFarland and Xander Combs.
The family will welcome friends and relatives for her internment at East Lawn Memorial Gardens, 2400 Bennett Road, Okemos, at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. Her cremains will be interred alongside her sister, Mildred Lake and their mother.
In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Jody Elizabeth Jones, 80, passed in her sleep Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, in Haslett, Michigan.
She was born Clara Jo Jones on Feb. 18, 1934, in Lafayette, Georgia, the seventh of nine children for John Homer Jones and Clara Elizabeth Thompson Jones. She was called Jody from her earliest days and later changed her name legally.
Jody graduated from Kathleen High School in Lakeland, Florida, and moved to Michigan to stay with a sister with plans to move West and work for the National Parks Service. Instead, she married Raymond Ned Fink on June 25, 1954, and became a southern lady who would live the rest of her life in the North. Together, they had four children in Williamston, Michigan.
On her own after the children had grown, Jody was an entrepreneur, Realtor and owner of adult foster care homes in Lansing and Stockbridge. She was an early adopter of technology, from her first car phone in the 1980s to staying connected on Facebook in her retirement. She volunteered for many years with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, as well as helping to found Williamston's annual Jubilee. Jody enjoyed being on the water, travel and singing, and she took up oil painting in her sixties. She often said, “The joy is in the journey.”
Along with her parents and siblings, Jody was preceded in death by her firstborn daughter, Weaver Rose Habl, and granddaughter, Nikki Ylon Fink.
She is survived by children Carol Valor, Anne and Tim Daniel, and Eric Fink and Lesa Johnson, and son-in-law James Bloomfield. She was Nana to six grandchildren: Jodi and Eric Friedman, Phill McFarland and Jenny Van Riper, Ray McFarland, Ray Valor, Nick Johnson and Loni Fink; and five great-grandchildren: Eden, Ava and Seth Friedman, Haylie McFarland and Xander Combs.
The family will welcome friends and relatives for her internment at East Lawn Memorial Gardens, 2400 Bennett Road, Okemos, at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. Her cremains will be interred alongside her sister, Mildred Lake and their mother.
In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
She was born Clara Jo Jones on Feb. 18, 1934, in Lafayette, Georgia, the seventh of nine children for John Homer Jones and Clara Elizabeth Thompson Jones. She was called Jody from her earliest days and later changed her name legally.
Jody graduated from Kathleen High School in Lakeland, Florida, and moved to Michigan to stay with a sister with plans to move West and work for the National Parks Service. Instead, she married Raymond Ned Fink on June 25, 1954, and became a southern lady who would live the rest of her life in the North. Together, they had four children in Williamston, Michigan.
On her own after the children had grown, Jody was an entrepreneur, Realtor and owner of adult foster care homes in Lansing and Stockbridge. She was an early adopter of technology, from her first car phone in the 1980s to staying connected on Facebook in her retirement. She volunteered for many years with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, as well as helping to found Williamston's annual Jubilee. Jody enjoyed being on the water, travel and singing, and she took up oil painting in her sixties. She often said, “The joy is in the journey.”
Along with her parents and siblings, Jody was preceded in death by her firstborn daughter, Weaver Rose Habl, and granddaughter, Nikki Ylon Fink.
She is survived by children Carol Valor, Anne and Tim Daniel, and Eric Fink and Lesa Johnson, and son-in-law James Bloomfield. She was Nana to six grandchildren: Jodi and Eric Friedman, Phill McFarland and Jenny Van Riper, Ray McFarland, Ray Valor, Nick Johnson and Loni Fink; and five great-grandchildren: Eden, Ava and Seth Friedman, Haylie McFarland and Xander Combs.
The family will welcome friends and relatives for her internment at East Lawn Memorial Gardens, 2400 Bennett Road, Okemos, at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. Her cremains will be interred alongside her sister, Mildred Lake and their mother.
In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
