Laura Arizona “Zona” Dean Jones, 88, of Tifton, died January 17, 2011 at Baptist Village in Waycross. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at the Memorial Chapel of Tifton’s First Baptist Church. Dr. Wayne Roe and Rev. Jim Donovan will officiate with burial to follow in Tift Memorial Gardens. Honorary pallbearers will be the Serenity Sunday School class of Tifton’s First Baptist Church, Dr. William Guest, Bunny and Scott Chestnutwood and the Senior Adult Choir of Tifton’s First Baptist Church. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the Memorial Chapel of Tifton’s First Baptist Church.
Mrs. Jones was born on November 6, 1922 in Ozark, Alabama and was the daughter of Bartow Dean and Maggie Harris Dean, both deceased. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Floyd Jones; one brother; and five sisters. She was a homemaker and a member of Tifton’s First Baptist Church. She had lived in Tifton for 43 years.
Mrs. Jones is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Randy and Brenda Jones of Waycross and Jeff and Anne Jones of Cartersville; two daughters and one son-in-law, Marsha and Philip Skoropat of Fernandina Beach, Florida and Debbie Cromer of Tifton; one sister, Elizabeth Akridge of Coker, Alabama; one sister-in-law, Thelma Dean of Summerville, South Carolina; six grandchildren, Ashley Jones, Lindsay Jones, Stephen Skoropat, Laura Skoropat Reynolds and her husband Keith, Rebecca Skoropat and Brian Cromer; and four great-grandchildren, Taylor Cromer, Jackson Reynolds, Addison Reynolds and Chandler Cromer.