RITES WEDNESDAY FOR OSCAR JONES
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Gass Funeral chapel for Oscar Jones, 69, a former Columbus resident, who died at his home in Council Bluffs, Ia., Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. J. A. Justad, Methodist pastor, will officiate and burial will be in the Roselawn Memorial cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Gass chapel after 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Jones, an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad for 41 years, had lived in Platte county and Columbus during his early life. He moved away about 30 years ago.
The son of I. N. and Sophia Jones, he was born Jan. 29, 1892 in Fillmore county, and received his education in the Platte county rural schools.
He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
Surviving are his wife, the former Vera Foreman; daughter, Rita Mae; one sister, Mrs. E. B. (Marion) Sutter of Estacada, Ore.; two brothers, David T. of Huntington Park, Cal., and Clinton of Omaha.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, W. G. and Newton I. Jones, and one sister, Mrs. Muriel Smith.
Originally published in Columbus Telegram (Columbus, Nebraska).
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Gass Funeral chapel for Oscar Jones, 69, a former Columbus resident, who died at his home in Council Bluffs, Ia., Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. J. A. Justad, Methodist pastor, will officiate and burial will be in the Roselawn Memorial cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Gass chapel after 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Jones, an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad for 41 years, had lived in Platte county and Columbus during his early life. He moved away about 30 years ago.
The son of I. N. and Sophia Jones, he was born Jan. 29, 1892 in Fillmore county, and received his education in the Platte county rural schools.
He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
Surviving are his wife, the former Vera Foreman; daughter, Rita Mae; one sister, Mrs. E. B. (Marion) Sutter of Estacada, Ore.; two brothers, David T. of Huntington Park, Cal., and Clinton of Omaha.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, W. G. and Newton I. Jones, and one sister, Mrs. Muriel Smith.
Originally published in Columbus Telegram (Columbus, Nebraska).
RITES WEDNESDAY FOR OSCAR JONES
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Gass Funeral chapel for Oscar Jones, 69, a former Columbus resident, who died at his home in Council Bluffs, Ia., Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. J. A. Justad, Methodist pastor, will officiate and burial will be in the Roselawn Memorial cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Gass chapel after 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Jones, an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad for 41 years, had lived in Platte county and Columbus during his early life. He moved away about 30 years ago.
The son of I. N. and Sophia Jones, he was born Jan. 29, 1892 in Fillmore county, and received his education in the Platte county rural schools.
He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
Surviving are his wife, the former Vera Foreman; daughter, Rita Mae; one sister, Mrs. E. B. (Marion) Sutter of Estacada, Ore.; two brothers, David T. of Huntington Park, Cal., and Clinton of Omaha.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, W. G. and Newton I. Jones, and one sister, Mrs. Muriel Smith.
Originally published in Columbus Telegram (Columbus, Nebraska).
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Gass Funeral chapel for Oscar Jones, 69, a former Columbus resident, who died at his home in Council Bluffs, Ia., Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. J. A. Justad, Methodist pastor, will officiate and burial will be in the Roselawn Memorial cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Gass chapel after 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Jones, an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad for 41 years, had lived in Platte county and Columbus during his early life. He moved away about 30 years ago.
The son of I. N. and Sophia Jones, he was born Jan. 29, 1892 in Fillmore county, and received his education in the Platte county rural schools.
He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
Surviving are his wife, the former Vera Foreman; daughter, Rita Mae; one sister, Mrs. E. B. (Marion) Sutter of Estacada, Ore.; two brothers, David T. of Huntington Park, Cal., and Clinton of Omaha.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, W. G. and Newton I. Jones, and one sister, Mrs. Muriel Smith.
Originally published in Columbus Telegram (Columbus, Nebraska).
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