Choctaw --Services for Robert C. "Shorty' .Tones, 99, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Midwest City First 'Baptist Church with burial in Arlington Memorial Cemetery directed by Taylor's Midwest City Funeral Home. He died Wednesday at his home.

Jones was born in Okemah. He was a builder and rancher, a member of Oklahoma Angus Association, Choctaw. First Baptist Church, and a veteran of World War ll.

Survivors include his wife, Lucille Mable: two sons, Brian and Tehran, born of the home; a daughter. Mrs. Jeanne Meek, Del City: two sisters, Mrs. Amara Parker. Anadarko, and Mrs. Vera Patrick, Tulsa; three brothers. Zelmet Ohio: Thomas, Oklahoma City,  ___ Spencer, and his parents,  Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jones.

July 16, 2006

M. Lucille Jones, 81, of Choctaw, went to be with her husband, Shorty Jones , that she hasn't seen in almost 37 years, on Thursday, July 13, 2006 with family by her side. She was born August 1, 1924 to Robert & Cleo York in Okemah, OK, six of ten kids into hard work, but a loving family. "Lou" or "Cotton", as her brothers and sisters called her, loved the cattle ranch, working in the yard and spending time with her daughter, sons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her daughter Jeanne and husband, Bill Meek; her two sons, Brian and wife, Cathy Jones and Tehran and wife, Carol Jones; six grandchildren, Tristi (Meek) Ross, Kyle Jones, Tevi (Meek) Winters, Tawni Meek, Courtney Jones, and Cailee Jones; two great-grandchildren, Kaymen and Kade Ross with two more on the way. She is also survived by two sisters, Ruth Everitt of Texas and Betty Robb of South Carolina; three brothers, Ted York & Edward York of Oklahoma City, and Billy York of Mustang; and numerous other family members.

Mrs. Jones was a second mom to a lot of baseball playing boys down at the ballpark and loved every minute of it. She and dad wouldn't have traded that experience for the world.

Services will be at Bill Eisenhour Northeast Chapel by Brother J. Harold Thompson at 10:00 AM, Monday July 17, 2006 and she'll be laid to rest alongside dad at Arlington Memory Gardens following service. The family would also like to extend a very thoughtful note to all the Nurses, Aides, Doctors, Workers, and Chaplains at Norman Regional Hospital for their thoughtfulness and dedication to our mom during her brief stay in the ICU and room #4917; you were a God sent at a hard time and we couldn't have made it without you. Thank You Very Much!

... Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2009.