Edward Lee Jones

Please see service date and time below. Edward Lee Jones (Dinky) was born in Buckeye Arizona to Mary Louise Demby and Charles Jones on September 2, 1958. Dinky attended South Mountain High School, Mesa Community College, Grand Canyon University, and Northern Arizona University where he studied psychology and dominated many basketball courts winning many all-conference, all state, and MVP awards. Later in life he played a large part in touching the lives of young people and those that could not care for themselves working at various detention centers in New Mexico and Oregon, the Oregon State prison, and Hacienda here in Arizona. Dinky loved the outdoors, and if the time allowed, he was always on the bank or boat fighting a big fish. He also loved cooking, listening to music, cracking jokes and being silly, playing spades, gin rummy, and dominoes and eating some peanut butter cups and oatmeal pies. Dinky is preceded in memory with his beloved sisters DellMarie Peich, Gwendolyn Jones-Magee, his brothers, Charles Robert Jones, and Johnny Jones, and parents Mary Baker and Charles Jones. Dinky loved his family and leaves behind his wife Karen Jones, brothers: Kalvin Jones, Kim Baker, sisters: Kammie Spencer, Karen Baker. He is also survived by his children: Marcus and LeKyndra Jones, and five grandchildren: Alicia, Kenyon, Trevion, DJ, and baby Kyndra along with many nephews and nieces to cherish his memory. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Edward Lee Jones, please visit our floral store.