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Vera Mai Jones, 69

Smithville resident and Nashville native Vera Mai Jones, 69, died unexpectedly June 8 at River Park Hospital.

A homemaker and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Henry and Vernon Oats McKay and was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert Gibbons Jones.

She is survived by daughters, Jane Melton and Paulette Reed, both of Smithville and Donna Lemons of Manchester; sons, Herbert Jones of McMinnville and Jerry Jones of Oklahoma; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; sisters, Elizabeth Eslick and Roxie Fuqua, both of Nashville; and brothers, Harold McKay and Raymond McKay, both of Nashville.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at High’s Chapel with Carl Bouldin officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. View Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 8 a.m. until time of service today at High’s.

High Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) June 10, 2005

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