Dr. Robert Holmes Jones

Dr. Robert Holmes Jones -MACON - Dr. Robert Holmes Jones died Saturday, November 26, 2005 at his residence. Born in Macon March 11, 1933, the son of the late Giles Paul Jones and Louise Hollis Holmes Jones, Dr. Jones attended Alexander IV and graduated from Lanier High School in 1951. He received his Bachelor of Science from Davidson College in 1955 where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1959. After completing an internal medicine internship and residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida in 1962, he completed an additional residency in gastroenterology at the VA Hospital in Miami in 1964. He then returned to Macon starting a private practice in internal medicine and gastroenterology. He retired from the practice on medicine in 1997. -He was a member of the Bibb County, Georgia, Southern and American Medical Associations. Dr. Jones was also a member and Adjutant of the Gen. Edward Dorr Tracy, Jr. Camp #18 Sons of Confederate Veterans, Idle Hour Country Club, and served on the first Board of Trustees of First Presbyterian Day School. He was a former deacon and choir member of First Presbyterian Church. He moved his membership to North Macon Presbyterian Church in 1990. -Dr. Jones was an accomplished musician and an avid patron of the arts holding memberships in the Scottish Harp Society, the Morning Music Club, the Macon Opera Guild and a former member of the board of the Macon Concert Association. As a pianist he performed over the years for local music organizations on several occasions. In recent years he mastered the folk harp, receiving scholarships for study and winning several competitions. He had just returned from Scotland, having won a scholarship to study under Alison Kinnard on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. He performed as a harpist in several local churches. -A man of many and varied interests, he was an accomplished gardener, gourmet chef, and extremely proud of his family and Southern heritage. -Dr. Jones is survived by his wife, Kathryn Jarvis Jones; and four daughters and their families in Macon, Ellie Jones and Mark Farriba, Amelia Jones Bradham, Liza Jones and Dr. Rob Sumowski, Ann Jones and John Hart IV, and ten grandchildren. Dr. Jones is also survived by a brother, Samuel P. Jones (Denny) of Macon; a sister, Molly Jones of Atlanta; sister-in-law, Dallis J. Jones of Macon; brother-in-law, Judge James Jarvis (Gail) of Knoxville, Tennessee; and sister-in-law, Pam Jarvis Miller (Mike) of Maryville, Tennessee. -A memorial service will be held at 11:30A.M., Monday, at North Macon Presbyterian Church. The family may be contacted at the residence. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to North Macon Presbyterian Church, The Macon Opera Guild, The Cannonball House, or the Sons of Confederate Veterans Headquarters Project. -Harts Mortuary has charge of arrangements. Dr. Robert Jones