IN LOVING MEMORY OF

John

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Jones

Apr 24, 1916 — Jul 19, 2008

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Age 92, Mountain Park - Services will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday in the First Baptist Church, Indiahoma, with Rev. Jimmy Lehew and Rev. Jeff Crow, officiating. Mr. Jones died Saturday in a Lawton hospital. Burial will be in the Springhill Cemetery, south of Cooperton, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home of Snyder. **** The family will receive friends Monday after 6 pm at the home of Ronnel Stoll. **** He was born April 24, 1916 south of Cooperton, Oklahoma, to John H. and Georgia Jones. He grew up in the Cooperton area and attended grade school at Springhill. He was a charter member of the Indiahoma FFA and was the Reporter in 1937. He was a 1940 graduate of Indiahoma High School and in January of 1941 entered the U.S. Army. He was a veteran of World War II and was discharged in 1945. He was a farmer and rancher all of his life. In 1976 he went to work for Caddo Rural Water District #3, retiring after 12 years. He married Jimmy Lou Whitaker on September 22, 1964 in Hobart. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Indiahoma and had been a Sunday school teacher in Cooperton. He raised and judged quarter horses. He is survived by his wife, of the home; a daughter and son in law, Cody Ann and Ronnal Stoll, Indiahoma; a son, Jimmy Jack Whitaker, Nashville, Tennessee; a daughter in law, Diane Whitaker, Nashville; three brothers and a sister in law, Olvis and Joyce Jones and Leo Jones, all of Snyder, and Billy Zane Jones Bosque Farms, New Mexico; a sister, Leola Powell, Auburn, Washington; a brother in law, Bill Rogers, Temecula, California; a sister in law, Penny Jones, Grand Prairie, Texas; five grandchildren and their spouses, Charley and Amber Hilliard, Jeff Whitaker, Chris Whitaker, Julie Whitaker and Jennifer and Jason Paxton; three Great Grandchildren, Ryder, Azure and Chloe; a brother-in-law, Raymond O'Brien and his wife Glennda of Fort Worth, Texas; numerous nieces and nephews. A son, Dixie Martin Whitaker, three brothers, Greeley, Virgil and Lavoy, and two sisters, Jeneal Riley and Marjorie Rogers, preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City OK 73104.

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