Owen U. Jones

Owen Urban Jones, 73, of 357 Joe Brown Road, Mars Hill, NC, and 3880 North A-1-A #1003, North Hutchinson Island, FL, died Sunday, August 3, 2003, at “Firefly”, his North Carolina home. Mr. Jones was a native of Miami and was the son of the late Leonard Preston Jones, a Georgia school teacher, and Alice Mae Griffin Jones, a descendent of Land Grant Holders from the King of England and pineapple plantation owners and canners on the Island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas. He was also preceded in death by his brothers and sister, William, Leonard and Virginia Jones. He retired as an executive with Florida Power and Light Co. after 39 years service. He and his wife retired to NC in 1987. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Mary Landrum Jones, whom he met during grammar school in Miami, and who were childhood sweethearts; two daughters, Deborah Donnahoe and her husband Sam Robertson of Cooper City, FL and Barbara Harris and her husband Glenn of North Lauderdale, FL; a son, Sgt. Curtis Jones and his wife April of Asheville; and four grandchildren, James Owen Donnahoe and Jessica, Laura and Garrett Harris. Funeral services will be at 2:00 pm Wednesday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with Chaplain William A. Snyder officiating. His family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service and at other times willbe at the residence. Flowers will be accepted and appreciated or memorials may be made to Madison County Hospice, PO Box 69, Marshall, NC 28753.