Virginia Jones

Virginia Lee "Ginny" Jones, 92, of Jackson passed away April 17, 2018, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Oct. 12, 1925, in Jackson, daughter of Christian D. and Kathryn Koch Wolters. She and Harold Everett Jones married April 14, 1956.

Ginny was confirmed and married in the Evangelical Church in Cape Girardeau. She graduated from Cape Central High School in 1943 and attended Cape Business College. After high school, she spent four years in California, working as a bookkeeper in aircraft manufacturing and shipyards. After moving back to Cape Girardeau, she worked as a switchboard operator at Southeast Hospital, a bookkeeper for Harold Locke Beer Distributing and Litz Brothers Poultry. After marrying Harold, they moved to Jackson, where she worked for Koch Manufacturing, E-Z Pump Gas and Delmonico's. She has been a member of Emanuel United Church of Christ in Jackson since 1956, a member of the Women Fellowship and Church Women United and was an Auxiliary Member of the VFW Post No. 10495. Ginny was an active member at the Jackson Senior Center, driving herself every day to play cards with her beloved ROOK group and other friends.

Loving survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Rowdy and Tracy Goode Jones of Manchester, Missouri, and two grandchildren, Nicholas Jones and fiance Allie Mueller of Madison, Wisconsin, and Dr. Mackenzie Lee Jones and husband Erek Alper of Hanover, New Hampshire.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Harold, in 1972.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

Funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home, with the Rev. Wavis Jordan officiating. Interment will follow in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson.

Memorials may take the form of contributions to Jackson Senior Center.

Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.mccombsfuneralhome.com.