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Verdell C Jones

Verdell "Pettie" Clark Jones, 90, of Texarkana, Texas, formerly of El Dorado, Ark. died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 at St. Michaels hospital in Texarkana, Texas. She was born Aug. 18, 1921, in the Antioch community near Nashville, Ark., the daughter of the late Phillip and Viola Alphin Clark. Mrs. Jones was a member of Second Baptist Church in El Dorado, Ark. She was preceded in death by a daughter Connie Lynn Jones; two brothers Marcellus Clark and Percy Clark; three sisters Nylotis Webb, Nance Morgan, and Ruby Jones. Survivors include her husband James Weldon "Jimmy" Jones of Texarkana, Texas; one son Rick Jones and wife Dorothy of Hot Springs Village, Ark.; two daughters Retta Nutt and husband Bud of Texarkana, Texas., Pam Warren and husband Randy of Crossett, Ark.; one brother Bo Clark of Nashville, Ark.; three sisters Gay Mitchell of El Dorado, Ark., Delsie Castleman and husband Jan of Nashville, Ark., and Pat Reed of Texarkana, Texas; three grandchildren John Nutt of Texarkana, Texas, Jim Warren of Denver, Colo., Leigh Thompson, of Fayetteville, Ark.; and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the Latimer Funeral Home Chapel in Nashville, burial will follow in Unity Cemetery, with her nephew, Bro. Tim Reed officiating. Visitation will be the day of the service, Feb. 21, at 10 a.m., until service time. Memorials can be sent to Unity Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, In Memory of Verdell Jones, 1986 CR 342, Nashville, Ark. 71852. You may send an online sympathy message at www.latimerfuneralhome.com.

Published February 20, 2012

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