Dale Jones, son of the late Albert Jones and Dorothy Atchison Young was born on January 8, 1941 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and departed this life on July 21, 2016 at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 75.
Mr. Jones was a Veteran of the United States Army, serving in Vietnam. During his service in the Army he served under the Special Forces in the Green Beret unit.
Mr. Jones was a self-employed car dealer and a resident of Dexter. He and his wife attended the First Assembly of God Church in Dexter. Mr. Jones will be remembered as a loving husband, father and grandfather who could light up the room with laughter as soon as he entered. He was a Patriot who loved his God, his family and people. In his younger days, he could be found at the local demolition derbys, and winning frequently.
On November 10, 1963 he was united in marriage to Margaret Conner in Puxico, Missouri. Mrs. Jones survives of their home in Dexter.
Besides his wife he is survived by two sons, Dale Jones Jr. of Dexter and Brian and wife Sarah Jones of Dexter; by two grandchildren, Logan Jones and Lily Jones both of Dexter; by two brothers, Tommy Jones and Ronald Young both of Dexter; by three sisters, Mary Wilkerson and husband Wayde of Defuniak Springs, Florida, Barbara Groves of Corning, Arkansas and Patsy Rogers of Lowndes, Missouri and by many nieces and nephews.
Besides his parents he was preceded in death by two brothers, Albert Jones and Jackie Jones and by three sisters, Shirley McAnally, Betty Cox and Debra Metcalf.
Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter on Monday, July 25, 2016 from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M.
Funeral services will be conducted on Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 11:00 A.M. at the First Assembly of God Church in Dexter with Rev. Mike Kohlbaker and Rev. Dale Jones Jr. officiating.
Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
In lieu of flowers the family requests all memorials be made to the First Assembly of God Church in Dexter.
