September 22, 1997

RUBY JONES

CLARINDA, Iowa -- Ruby E. Jones, 88, of Clarinda and formerly of Union County, Ill., died Thursday, Sept. 18, 1997, at Community Care in Clarinda. She was born Feb. 17, 1909, in Dongola, Ill., the daughter of J. Franklin and Fannie Belle Benson Hughes. On Nov. 24, 1928, she married Warner Jones. He died May 7, 1985...

CLARINDA, Iowa -- Ruby E. Jones, 88, of Clarinda and formerly of Union County, Ill., died Thursday, Sept. 18, 1997, at Community Care in Clarinda.

She was born Feb. 17, 1909, in Dongola, Ill., the daughter of J. Franklin and Fannie Belle Benson Hughes. On Nov. 24, 1928, she married Warner Jones. He died May 7, 1985.

She was a librarian at the Mental Health Institute in Clarinda for 27 years before retiring.

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Survivors are nieces and nephews.

Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Crain Funeral Home in Dongola.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Friendship Cemetery near Dongola, with the Rev. Doyle Keller officiating.

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