Clarice Lorita Jones Bones
Clarice Lorita Jones Bones was born Dec. 8, 1924, in Sheridan, and died in Cloverdale Jan. 10, 2008.
Her father was Lynn Elias Jones, and her mother was Lela Frances Agee Jones.
Clarice lived in Sheridan, attending Sheridan Grade School until her second-grade year, when she moved out onto a farm on Harmony Road near Buell. Her dad, Lynn, planted orchards, prunes and hops on the farm. Lynn and Lela had two big barns for horses and cows, a hop dryer and prune dryer. On the farm, Clarice remembered picking hops in a little hop basket and then putting them in her mother's hop basket.
After moving to Harmony Road, Clarice attended Harmony School, where she remembered reading every book in the school by fifth or sixth grade, and helping first-graders to learn to read while the teacher did other necessary things.
In Clarice's eighth grade year, the Jones family moved to Jenck Road south of Cloverdale, and she attended Cloverdale Grade School. At Cloverdale, Clarice played basketball, loved music, and even with a month out of school due to pneumonia, became valedictorian of her eighth grade class.
Clarice attended four years at Nestucca Union High School, making many wonderful lifelong friends. And it was at Nestucca that she met her future husband, Raymond Bones, when she "whupped him" in a ping pong game at noon. Clarice was valedictorian of her graduating class in 1942.
Raymond joined the Army, and Clarice went to California to visit him. They ended up getting married and other than a short stay in San Antonio, Tex., while Ray was stationed there, Clarice spent most of four years living in Portland without her husband. She attended a business school for one and a half years and then worked in an accounting company for two years. She also worked for a while in a JC Penny store in San Antonio, Tex., and in Portland. And while Raymond was overseas for two years during World War II, Clarice wrote him two letters a day, sending a photo of herself in every letter.
After Raymond came home, the Bones family lived in Hebo for about a year and a half before moving to Beaver, purchasing a 32-acre farm they owned and operated for about 10 years. Clarice wore many hats being an awesome mom to two boys and two girls while Ray worked away from home hauling hay and then hauling logs, keeping the books for the hay hauling business, log trucking operation and then the Shell service station that they owned and operated for about six years. She also worked in the Sears store in Tillamook for a time.
After moving about a mile east on Blaine Road, the Boneses purchased Bruce's grocery store in Hebo in about 1964. The store was remodeled and renamed Bones' Grocery and Hardware and was in operation in Ray's words "too long." Clarice worked long hours filling many of the positions needed in the small store and meat cutting business.
Clarice and Ray also purchased the cabins across from the store and operated them as rentals for many years. At one time, they owned 13 cabins and rentals in the Beaver, Hebo and Cloverdale areas, most of which were personally remodeled by Ray, Clarice and family.
After retiring, Clarice and Ray traveled the West Coast extensively, enjoying trips to Alaska and many winter trips to Arizona in addition to a trip to Europe. Those trips added friends to the huge list of wonderful friends the Boneses had. In her later years, Clarice, along with Ray, was also a member of Beaver Community Church, renewing a commitment to the Lord that she had made as a young girl.
Clarice and Ray had four children, Keith, Dean, Susan and Sharon. They each married, and Clarice loved every one of her nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Clarice was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond. She leaves behind her children, Keith Bones, Janet Bones, Dean and Laurie Bones, Chuck and Susan Lenzi, and Phil and Sharon Geisert. Also surviving are grandchildren, Heather and David Roberts, Andrea and Rob Geisbush, Tyler and Roni Bones, Kaili Bones, Nathan Lenzi, Brandon Lenzi, Brooke Lenzi, Cassia and David Hobbs, and Jemima Geisert, as well as great-grandchildren, Ariel, Brianna, Connor, Davianna, Emily, Matthew, Marissa, Nathan and Chanterelle.
Clarice also leaves behind one aunt, Rose Phelps Dawson Nufer, numerous beloved cousins, nieces, nephews and many deeply valued and appreciated friends.
The family wishes to thank the staff of Kilchis House for the care given while Clarice was a resident there, in-home care over the years provided by caregivers Laurie Bones, Sharon Perkins, Phyllis Woods, Charlotte Martin and others on a part-time basis, the care provided by the staff of Dallas Retirement Center, and for the care provided by Hospice.
A memorial service celebrating Clarice's life will be Saturday, Jan. 19, at 11 a.m., at Beaver Community Church, followed by a meal and a family burial in the Nestucca Valley Community Cemetery south of Hebo.
Headlight-Herald, Jan. 16, 2008
Clarice Lorita Jones Bones was born Dec. 8, 1924, in Sheridan, and died in Cloverdale Jan. 10, 2008.
Her father was Lynn Elias Jones, and her mother was Lela Frances Agee Jones.
Clarice lived in Sheridan, attending Sheridan Grade School until her second-grade year, when she moved out onto a farm on Harmony Road near Buell. Her dad, Lynn, planted orchards, prunes and hops on the farm. Lynn and Lela had two big barns for horses and cows, a hop dryer and prune dryer. On the farm, Clarice remembered picking hops in a little hop basket and then putting them in her mother's hop basket.
After moving to Harmony Road, Clarice attended Harmony School, where she remembered reading every book in the school by fifth or sixth grade, and helping first-graders to learn to read while the teacher did other necessary things.
In Clarice's eighth grade year, the Jones family moved to Jenck Road south of Cloverdale, and she attended Cloverdale Grade School. At Cloverdale, Clarice played basketball, loved music, and even with a month out of school due to pneumonia, became valedictorian of her eighth grade class.
Clarice attended four years at Nestucca Union High School, making many wonderful lifelong friends. And it was at Nestucca that she met her future husband, Raymond Bones, when she "whupped him" in a ping pong game at noon. Clarice was valedictorian of her graduating class in 1942.
Raymond joined the Army, and Clarice went to California to visit him. They ended up getting married and other than a short stay in San Antonio, Tex., while Ray was stationed there, Clarice spent most of four years living in Portland without her husband. She attended a business school for one and a half years and then worked in an accounting company for two years. She also worked for a while in a JC Penny store in San Antonio, Tex., and in Portland. And while Raymond was overseas for two years during World War II, Clarice wrote him two letters a day, sending a photo of herself in every letter.
After Raymond came home, the Bones family lived in Hebo for about a year and a half before moving to Beaver, purchasing a 32-acre farm they owned and operated for about 10 years. Clarice wore many hats being an awesome mom to two boys and two girls while Ray worked away from home hauling hay and then hauling logs, keeping the books for the hay hauling business, log trucking operation and then the Shell service station that they owned and operated for about six years. She also worked in the Sears store in Tillamook for a time.
After moving about a mile east on Blaine Road, the Boneses purchased Bruce's grocery store in Hebo in about 1964. The store was remodeled and renamed Bones' Grocery and Hardware and was in operation in Ray's words "too long." Clarice worked long hours filling many of the positions needed in the small store and meat cutting business.
Clarice and Ray also purchased the cabins across from the store and operated them as rentals for many years. At one time, they owned 13 cabins and rentals in the Beaver, Hebo and Cloverdale areas, most of which were personally remodeled by Ray, Clarice and family.
After retiring, Clarice and Ray traveled the West Coast extensively, enjoying trips to Alaska and many winter trips to Arizona in addition to a trip to Europe. Those trips added friends to the huge list of wonderful friends the Boneses had. In her later years, Clarice, along with Ray, was also a member of Beaver Community Church, renewing a commitment to the Lord that she had made as a young girl.
Clarice and Ray had four children, Keith, Dean, Susan and Sharon. They each married, and Clarice loved every one of her nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Clarice was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond. She leaves behind her children, Keith Bones, Janet Bones, Dean and Laurie Bones, Chuck and Susan Lenzi, and Phil and Sharon Geisert. Also surviving are grandchildren, Heather and David Roberts, Andrea and Rob Geisbush, Tyler and Roni Bones, Kaili Bones, Nathan Lenzi, Brandon Lenzi, Brooke Lenzi, Cassia and David Hobbs, and Jemima Geisert, as well as great-grandchildren, Ariel, Brianna, Connor, Davianna, Emily, Matthew, Marissa, Nathan and Chanterelle.
Clarice also leaves behind one aunt, Rose Phelps Dawson Nufer, numerous beloved cousins, nieces, nephews and many deeply valued and appreciated friends.
The family wishes to thank the staff of Kilchis House for the care given while Clarice was a resident there, in-home care over the years provided by caregivers Laurie Bones, Sharon Perkins, Phyllis Woods, Charlotte Martin and others on a part-time basis, the care provided by the staff of Dallas Retirement Center, and for the care provided by Hospice.
A memorial service celebrating Clarice's life will be Saturday, Jan. 19, at 11 a.m., at Beaver Community Church, followed by a meal and a family burial in the Nestucca Valley Community Cemetery south of Hebo.
Headlight-Herald, Jan. 16, 2008
Clarice Lorita Jones Bones
Clarice Lorita Jones Bones was born Dec. 8, 1924, in Sheridan, and died in Cloverdale Jan. 10, 2008.
Her father was Lynn Elias Jones, and her mother was Lela Frances Agee Jones.
Clarice lived in Sheridan, attending Sheridan Grade School until her second-grade year, when she moved out onto a farm on Harmony Road near Buell. Her dad, Lynn, planted orchards, prunes and hops on the farm. Lynn and Lela had two big barns for horses and cows, a hop dryer and prune dryer. On the farm, Clarice remembered picking hops in a little hop basket and then putting them in her mother's hop basket.
After moving to Harmony Road, Clarice attended Harmony School, where she remembered reading every book in the school by fifth or sixth grade, and helping first-graders to learn to read while the teacher did other necessary things.
In Clarice's eighth grade year, the Jones family moved to Jenck Road south of Cloverdale, and she attended Cloverdale Grade School. At Cloverdale, Clarice played basketball, loved music, and even with a month out of school due to pneumonia, became valedictorian of her eighth grade class.
Clarice attended four years at Nestucca Union High School, making many wonderful lifelong friends. And it was at Nestucca that she met her future husband, Raymond Bones, when she "whupped him" in a ping pong game at noon. Clarice was valedictorian of her graduating class in 1942.
Raymond joined the Army, and Clarice went to California to visit him. They ended up getting married and other than a short stay in San Antonio, Tex., while Ray was stationed there, Clarice spent most of four years living in Portland without her husband. She attended a business school for one and a half years and then worked in an accounting company for two years. She also worked for a while in a JC Penny store in San Antonio, Tex., and in Portland. And while Raymond was overseas for two years during World War II, Clarice wrote him two letters a day, sending a photo of herself in every letter.
After Raymond came home, the Bones family lived in Hebo for about a year and a half before moving to Beaver, purchasing a 32-acre farm they owned and operated for about 10 years. Clarice wore many hats being an awesome mom to two boys and two girls while Ray worked away from home hauling hay and then hauling logs, keeping the books for the hay hauling business, log trucking operation and then the Shell service station that they owned and operated for about six years. She also worked in the Sears store in Tillamook for a time.
After moving about a mile east on Blaine Road, the Boneses purchased Bruce's grocery store in Hebo in about 1964. The store was remodeled and renamed Bones' Grocery and Hardware and was in operation in Ray's words "too long." Clarice worked long hours filling many of the positions needed in the small store and meat cutting business.
Clarice and Ray also purchased the cabins across from the store and operated them as rentals for many years. At one time, they owned 13 cabins and rentals in the Beaver, Hebo and Cloverdale areas, most of which were personally remodeled by Ray, Clarice and family.
After retiring, Clarice and Ray traveled the West Coast extensively, enjoying trips to Alaska and many winter trips to Arizona in addition to a trip to Europe. Those trips added friends to the huge list of wonderful friends the Boneses had. In her later years, Clarice, along with Ray, was also a member of Beaver Community Church, renewing a commitment to the Lord that she had made as a young girl.
Clarice and Ray had four children, Keith, Dean, Susan and Sharon. They each married, and Clarice loved every one of her nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Clarice was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond. She leaves behind her children, Keith Bones, Janet Bones, Dean and Laurie Bones, Chuck and Susan Lenzi, and Phil and Sharon Geisert. Also surviving are grandchildren, Heather and David Roberts, Andrea and Rob Geisbush, Tyler and Roni Bones, Kaili Bones, Nathan Lenzi, Brandon Lenzi, Brooke Lenzi, Cassia and David Hobbs, and Jemima Geisert, as well as great-grandchildren, Ariel, Brianna, Connor, Davianna, Emily, Matthew, Marissa, Nathan and Chanterelle.
Clarice also leaves behind one aunt, Rose Phelps Dawson Nufer, numerous beloved cousins, nieces, nephews and many deeply valued and appreciated friends.
The family wishes to thank the staff of Kilchis House for the care given while Clarice was a resident there, in-home care over the years provided by caregivers Laurie Bones, Sharon Perkins, Phyllis Woods, Charlotte Martin and others on a part-time basis, the care provided by the staff of Dallas Retirement Center, and for the care provided by Hospice.
A memorial service celebrating Clarice's life will be Saturday, Jan. 19, at 11 a.m., at Beaver Community Church, followed by a meal and a family burial in the Nestucca Valley Community Cemetery south of Hebo.
Headlight-Herald, Jan. 16, 2008
Clarice Lorita Jones Bones was born Dec. 8, 1924, in Sheridan, and died in Cloverdale Jan. 10, 2008.
Her father was Lynn Elias Jones, and her mother was Lela Frances Agee Jones.
Clarice lived in Sheridan, attending Sheridan Grade School until her second-grade year, when she moved out onto a farm on Harmony Road near Buell. Her dad, Lynn, planted orchards, prunes and hops on the farm. Lynn and Lela had two big barns for horses and cows, a hop dryer and prune dryer. On the farm, Clarice remembered picking hops in a little hop basket and then putting them in her mother's hop basket.
After moving to Harmony Road, Clarice attended Harmony School, where she remembered reading every book in the school by fifth or sixth grade, and helping first-graders to learn to read while the teacher did other necessary things.
In Clarice's eighth grade year, the Jones family moved to Jenck Road south of Cloverdale, and she attended Cloverdale Grade School. At Cloverdale, Clarice played basketball, loved music, and even with a month out of school due to pneumonia, became valedictorian of her eighth grade class.
Clarice attended four years at Nestucca Union High School, making many wonderful lifelong friends. And it was at Nestucca that she met her future husband, Raymond Bones, when she "whupped him" in a ping pong game at noon. Clarice was valedictorian of her graduating class in 1942.
Raymond joined the Army, and Clarice went to California to visit him. They ended up getting married and other than a short stay in San Antonio, Tex., while Ray was stationed there, Clarice spent most of four years living in Portland without her husband. She attended a business school for one and a half years and then worked in an accounting company for two years. She also worked for a while in a JC Penny store in San Antonio, Tex., and in Portland. And while Raymond was overseas for two years during World War II, Clarice wrote him two letters a day, sending a photo of herself in every letter.
After Raymond came home, the Bones family lived in Hebo for about a year and a half before moving to Beaver, purchasing a 32-acre farm they owned and operated for about 10 years. Clarice wore many hats being an awesome mom to two boys and two girls while Ray worked away from home hauling hay and then hauling logs, keeping the books for the hay hauling business, log trucking operation and then the Shell service station that they owned and operated for about six years. She also worked in the Sears store in Tillamook for a time.
After moving about a mile east on Blaine Road, the Boneses purchased Bruce's grocery store in Hebo in about 1964. The store was remodeled and renamed Bones' Grocery and Hardware and was in operation in Ray's words "too long." Clarice worked long hours filling many of the positions needed in the small store and meat cutting business.
Clarice and Ray also purchased the cabins across from the store and operated them as rentals for many years. At one time, they owned 13 cabins and rentals in the Beaver, Hebo and Cloverdale areas, most of which were personally remodeled by Ray, Clarice and family.
After retiring, Clarice and Ray traveled the West Coast extensively, enjoying trips to Alaska and many winter trips to Arizona in addition to a trip to Europe. Those trips added friends to the huge list of wonderful friends the Boneses had. In her later years, Clarice, along with Ray, was also a member of Beaver Community Church, renewing a commitment to the Lord that she had made as a young girl.
Clarice and Ray had four children, Keith, Dean, Susan and Sharon. They each married, and Clarice loved every one of her nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Clarice was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond. She leaves behind her children, Keith Bones, Janet Bones, Dean and Laurie Bones, Chuck and Susan Lenzi, and Phil and Sharon Geisert. Also surviving are grandchildren, Heather and David Roberts, Andrea and Rob Geisbush, Tyler and Roni Bones, Kaili Bones, Nathan Lenzi, Brandon Lenzi, Brooke Lenzi, Cassia and David Hobbs, and Jemima Geisert, as well as great-grandchildren, Ariel, Brianna, Connor, Davianna, Emily, Matthew, Marissa, Nathan and Chanterelle.
Clarice also leaves behind one aunt, Rose Phelps Dawson Nufer, numerous beloved cousins, nieces, nephews and many deeply valued and appreciated friends.
The family wishes to thank the staff of Kilchis House for the care given while Clarice was a resident there, in-home care over the years provided by caregivers Laurie Bones, Sharon Perkins, Phyllis Woods, Charlotte Martin and others on a part-time basis, the care provided by the staff of Dallas Retirement Center, and for the care provided by Hospice.
A memorial service celebrating Clarice's life will be Saturday, Jan. 19, at 11 a.m., at Beaver Community Church, followed by a meal and a family burial in the Nestucca Valley Community Cemetery south of Hebo.
Headlight-Herald, Jan. 16, 2008
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