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| Notes for Willie "Bill" David JONES | ||||||||||||||||
| Annette list death in Los Angeles not in Yuma, AZ. He is buried in Lemoore Cemetry. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Obituary Notice: Bill Jones Former Island district resident Bill Jones, 78 died wednesday at a Los Angeles hospital after a long-term illness. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Lemoore Cemetery. A long-time Island District resident, Jones had moved several years ago to Los Angeles where he owned a fish market. He was retired from the business at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Mary; three brothers, Harold of Island District, Clarence of Salinas and Jess of Fairmead; and a sister Ethel Poole of Island District | ||||||||||||||||
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| Gravestone states: Willie David Jones 25 Mar 1910 ~ 01 Jun 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
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| 8Notes for Willie David Jones by Annette Lockett: Uncle Bill told me many stories over the years, most of which i annot remember. Here, however, is what I do remember. While on a visit with Uncle Frank (Greenway), Ucle Bill and Uncle Frank related that Bill was extremely jealous of one of his girlfriends. He was so jealous and suspicous, that he left the house one day, and then doubled back to see if anyone would arrive in his absence. He states that when he got close to the house, he got down on his hands and knees and crawled through an open field so that he could get close enough to the house to watch. Uncle bill was always full of tricks for the kids. He had one trick where he tied his handkerchief together and make a "rabbit". He put the "rabbit" in his pocket and then told the children that he caught something. He would make his pocket junp, and then pull out this "rabbit" and it would jump all over his hand, giving the children a thrill, and making them swear it was real. Uncle Bill told me once about when Dad (Harold Jones) got his first job leveling ground. He stated that Dad had gone out early one morning looking for work at a particular farm, and when he hadn't come back after a while, he went looking for him. He states that he saw a tractor in the middle of the field and he went out to it and asked the driver if he had seen Harold Jones. He stated that the driver was almost black with dust, and that when he romeved his goggles, it was Harold. Bill seems to be the only one that had any real recollections of Amos that I have run across. When asking him about him, he stated that Amos would "borrow" his Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes when he had a date, leaving Uncle Bill with nothing to wear, and thus having to stay home. Bill also stated that he and Amos came to Los Angeles in the Late 1920s and were bit players in a silent movie, a western called "Arizona Nights". They had the parts of Indians. | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified 14 Jul 1999 | Created 30 Jul 1999 by Reunion for Macintosh |