Vadia Lois Moses Jones Bailes died Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, at 10:30 p.m. at Quitman Memorial Hospital, Quitman, Wood County, Texas.
She was born March 4, 1918. She was the daughter of David and Josie Moses.

She was preceded in death by two husbands, Vernon Eugene Jones of Silsbee, Texas (married from 1936 until his death in 1968) and Jack Oral Bailes of Eureka Springs, Arkansas (married from 1976 until his death in 1995);
Also by one son, Vernon Stanley Jones of Silsbee, Texas;
And also by one son-in-law, Robert Edmisten of Springdale, Arkansas;
And by two grandchildren, Leta Ann Jones Wilkerson of Conroe, Texas and Harry John Pinell III of New Iberia, Louisiana;
And by one great-grandchild, Raven Syn-Clare Pinell of New Iberia, Louisiana.

She is survived by three sons and their spouses:
Phillip and Theresa Jones of Fayetteville, Arkansas
Michael and Carolyn Jones of Branson, Missouri
and Darrell K. Jones, of Dallas, Texas;
And also survived by three daughters and their spouses:
Lequita and Harry Pinell of Erath, Louisiana
Joy and John Miller of Mineola, Texas
and Millie Edmisten of Springdale, Arkansas
She is further survived by 23 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren, and 16 great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, at Beaty Funeral Home Chapel in Mineola with Steve Nevell, Minister of the Broad Street Church of Christ in Mineola, Texas, officiating.
She was a member of the Broad Street Church of Christ in Mineola and was a member of the Church of Christ all her adult life.
The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 at the Beaty Funeral Home in Mineola.
Interment will be at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Mineola, Texas, adjacent to the Beaty Funeral Home.

By the end of her life Vadia Lois Moses Jones Bailes had become almost universally and affectionately known to everyone who knew her - family and friends alike - by a single name, - one she chose for herself when her first grandchild was born:

"Mamou"

As the years went by it became
that everyone who knew her
called her Mamou.
And everyone knew
who that was
and everyone knew
that was who she was.
And so she had become,
and so she became,
our beloved Mamou.
And she was.
Because that's who she chose to be.


Sweet dreams Mamou.

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From
Monday, March 4, 1918

To
Friday, August 5, 2011

Is
34,123 days

Lifetime
93 years, 5 months, 2 days

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