Betty Pennington Jones

Betty June Pennington Jones of Bryant, Arkansas slipped away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. She was predeceased by their little boy, David Stephen and daughter Rhonda Gail Jones Goheen. She was born on December 23, 1931 to L.G. and Hazel Atwood Pennington in Sheridan, Arkansas. Betty graduated from Sheridan High School, very popular and had many friends and accomplishments. She married David J. Jones upon graduation and worked to help him finish college. She is survived by her husband of seventy years, David, her son Randy (Joyce), sister and brother-in-law, Judy and Lewis Parker; sister, Joyce Batchelor, son-in-law, Robert Goheen; grandson Zachary McDonald, granddaughter Ashley Erskine (Rob), grandson Andrew Jones of Dallas. She is also survived by her great grandson Max Allen Erskine, and great granddaughter, Emmy Jewell Erskine with her Sunday school class and many friends from Geyer Springs First Baptist Church. A loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, she will truly be missed. A private family funeral was held on Friday, June 12, 2020, by Memorial Gardens Funeral Home of Sheridan (870) 942-1306. In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the Arkansas Emergency Medical Foundation-MEMS-1121 West 7th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201, where lives are saved or made better every day. Now let us pray: Lord, today we pray to offer thanks for the life of Betty June Pennington Jones. We thank you for her beauty, not just for her beautiful blue eyes and countenance, but for acceptance of responsibility as when her mother began working, she prepared dinner every night for her family of six, she was twelve years old. For being a second mother to her grandson Zachary, after caring for her daughter Rhonda, as her care giver for several years following her accident. We Thank you for her friendships as the most popular girl in high school, in the football queen's court, cheer leader, lead in all the school plays and for her best friend to this day, Mary Slaughter. The primary object of all the boys and the envy of all the girls. For the help mate of David, who she allowed to kiss her following junior choir practice when she was fourteen. For working alongside him to assist him in graduating college and for the constant blessing of their family by her dedication. When she was entering the operating room, she raised her hand into the air, David asked what she was doing and she said holding Rhonda's hand. Today she is again holding Rhonda's hand but this time laughing, having fun, no walker, no wheelchair, and no pain, just the joy of togetherness. We thank you for the two life times of seventy years, together with the joy, pain, worry, fear, fun, anger, frustration, disappointment and excitement that lives with married people, and with all that and more, they made it. We thank you for the tomorrow of re-union, where the family will once again be reunited, where all things will be just fine in the arms of Christ, Jesus. Thank you for this wonderful lady and her beautiful life. AMEN.