PAINTON -- Jim Dick Jeffress, 73, of Sun City, Ariz., died Monday, Feb. 21, 1994, in a hospital there.
He was born in June 1920, at Painton, son of Loe and Ruth Painton Jeffress.
Jeffress farmed in this area, moving to Sun City in the mid 1960s where he was a mechanic until retiring.
Survivors include his wife, the former Ruth Johnson; a son, Rocky Jeffress of Sun City; two daughters, Lynn Smith of St. Louis, and Wanda Hill of Indianapolis, Ind.; a sister, Mary Halter of Sun City, and seven grandchildren.
Burial was in Sun City.
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