e Evening News, Sat., May 4, 1996

 

 

 

Dewain W. Jones

LAKELAND, Fla. — Dewain
W. Jones, 77, of Lakeland, Fla.,
formerly of Flat Rock, died Thurs-
day in Lakeland. He had been ill
for the past year.

Friends may call from 12:30 to 9
p.m. Sunday at the Arthur
Bobcean Funeral Home, Flat
Rock, where funeral services are
scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday.
The Rev. Evans Bentley of First
United Methodist Church in Flat
Rock will officiate.

Burial will be in Zion Cemetery,
Blissfield.

Born Jan. 3, 1919, in Blissfield,
he was the son of Dewain R. and
Clara (Green) Jones. He married
Anne Kasno on April 20, 1941, at
the First. United Methodist
Church, Flat Rock.

The couple moved to Lakeland
in 1986.

He had been employed for 31
years as an air tool repairman by
Fisher Body in Detroit, and later
for five years worked at Disney
World in Orlando, Fla.

He was a Navy veteran serving
from May 11, 1944, to Feb. 10,
1946.

He was a member of the Exper-
imental Aircraft Association in
Oshkosh, Wis., and the Aircraft
Museum in Lakeland.

Surviving, in addition to his
wife Anne, are a son, Dewain of
Snover, Mich.; five daughters,
Robin: Schneider and Rebecca
Jones of Lakeland, Penny Onesky
of Orlando, Pamela Simon of
Grand Blanc, and Jennifer
Maxwell of Louchman, Fla.; three
brothers, Harold and Bernard of
Carleton and David of -New
Boston; four sisters, Mrs. William
(Dolores) Wallace of Flat Rock,
Mrs. Fred (Lorraine) Ruttkofsky
of Tecumseh, Mrs. Russell (Patri-
cia) Radeke of Tremonton, Utah,
and Mrs. Gordon (Lona) Arm-
strong of Trenton; 14 grandchil-
dren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by
two sisters, Vivian and Jacquelyn.