Rowland Dan Jones' Obituary
Rowland Dan Jones, 90, of Elk Falls, Kansas died September 9, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.
Services will be held 10:00 a.m. Friday, September 16, 2011, at the United Methodist Church in Elk Falls, Kansas, with Pastor Dena Allison, officiating. Interment with Masonic Rites will follow at the Elk Falls Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to go to either the Masonic Hope Lodge 155 or Elk Falls United Methodist Church. Memorials can be left with the Countryside - Zimmerman Funeral Home, in Howard.
Mr. Jones was born July 30, 1921 in Rural Elk Falls, Kansas, to Florence Lucy (Bennitt) Jones and Daniel Garfield Jones.
He was a member of the Elk Falls, United Methodist Church, Hope Lodge 155, Order of Eastern Star Ladonia Chapter, President of Kansas Wolf Hunter’s Association and was an Elk County 4 – H Leader. He served as Past Master in the Masonic Lodge and Worthy Patron in Eastern Star.
He married Gladys I. Black on January 23, 1964 and they made their home in the Rural Elk Falls area where he was a rancher.
Mr. Jones is survived by his wife, of the home, three daughters, Dianna Morrison of Franklin, Ks, Jane Wassom of Longton, Ks, Rowlinda Justus of Emporia, Ks, a son, Glen Blackburn of Longton, Ks, a sister, Maurine Weaver of Independence, Ks, Seventeen grandchildren and many great and great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter, Iown Adamson, and a niece, Sharon Weaver, and a granddaughter, Cynthia Morrison.
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