92 year old Roeba Mae Jones of McMinnville (Dibrell Community) died Monday at River Park Hospital in McMinnville She was in DeKalb County, was a homemaker and a member of Bybee Branch Church of Christ. Mrs. Jones was preceded in death by her parents William Henry and Canzaday Blankenship Mitchell, her husband Gentry A.Z. Jones, her sisters Austia Ray and Hallie Jane Cantrell, her brother George J. Mitchell, and son-in-law Ken Lee.
Survivors include her children Glyna Lee of McMinnville,, Donna and Doug Thweatt of Gallatin, Jane and Phil Bennett and Brenda and Richard Bumbalough all of McMinnville, her grandchildren Tammie and Alan Greer of Dallas, Texas, Melissa and Craig Sprinkles of Mooresville, North Carolina, Leann Bennett, Jason and Lynn Bumbalough, Jennifer and Chris Mears, and Mike Lee all of McMinnville, and great-grandchildren Leah and Lauren Sprinkles, Kellie and Carrington Bumbalough, and Kelly and Nick Greer. The funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. Friday at McMinnville Funeral Home Chapel. Tony Lawrence will officiate. Burial will follow at Jefferson Cemetery in DeKalb County. The Jones Family will receive friends on Wednesday from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. no visitation on Thanksgiving Thursday, and again on Friday from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at McMinnville Funeral Home. Memorial donations may be made to Meals on Wheels or to the American Heart Association. McMinnville Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Roeba Mae Jones
Posted in Obituaries and tagged 2009.