CURTIS "JACK" JONES

LAMAR-Services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Konantz Warden Funeral Home for Curtis “Jack” Jones, 95, Lamar, who died Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. Burial was at Memory Gardens Cemetery.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include his daughter-in-law, Shirley Jones, Fairbanks, Alaska; two granddaughters, Marcie Jones and Stacie Ryman; one grandson, Austin Ryman; three sisters, Olive Pyatt and Reba Simmons, Lamar and Sarah White, Boerne, Texas and 24 nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Alma in March 2015; a son, Richard, who died in December of 2014 and four sisters, Madeline Phipps, Alma Reaves, Mary Williams and Wanda Jones.

Mr. Jones was born Feb. 11, 1921, to Claude W. and Sarah Opal Jones in Knob Noster. He was the second of eight children in his family and the only boy. He spent most of his life in Barton County, attending Anderson rural school until the eighth grade. He married Alma Seay in 1941 and began to farm on his own near Milford. He loved travel, new experiences and “figuring things out”. He was a jack of all trades as he worked throughout the country and in 1956 he bought 60 acres on KK Hwy. and began to work for Owens Service Station. Later he bought the Conoco Station on Hwy. 160. He also raised rabbits commercially for Pel-Freez out of Arkansas. After selling the station in 1960 he worked for Lewis LP Gas for six years. From 1966 until his retirement he worked for Superior Supply in Joplin.

He was a lifetime member of Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church, having served several years as Sunday school superintendent in his younger years. He enjoyed square dancing, bluegrass and gospel music, fishing and playing cards with anyone willing to try.