Julia Hawthorne Hall Jones Erickson McDougal

1912 - 2022

At almost 111 years old Julia Hawthorne Hall Jones Erickson McDougal, our wonderful Mommy Gramma, great and great-great grandmother (Gigi), left us on December 19, 2022. She was born on February 8, 1912 and maintained until the end that she had nothing to do with the Titanic's sinking. She lived during 20 different Presidencies and through two World Wars.

Julia was friendly, witty, extremely intelligent, wonderfully compassionate, and was loved by all who knew her, but above all else, she was a lady. She was born in a time before antibiotics and survived measles and scarlet fever within a year's time when she was ten years old. She was also a cancer survivor. First married in 1938, she followed her army husband to Germany and France after WWII with three small children in tow where she worked as a civilian secretary in various military offices with a top secret security clearance. Upon return to the US the family moved to Browns Valley late in 1954 (just in time for the flood of 1955) and she took a job as executive assistant to Woodrow Jang at Jay's department store, working there for many years as collaborator and personal secretary to Mr. Jang. She was able to cover for most of the jobs in the office and on the department floors and was well appreciated for that talent. She loved her secretarial work from the very first in the 1930's when she worked for Ayers and Son Advertising making $.80 per hour in the J.L. Hudson Company building in Detroit Michigan. However she always said she loved working at Jay's in Marysville California the best.

After the death of her first husband in 1965 she moved to Napa and eventually reconnected with an old acquaintance, and married him in 1969, enjoying several years together before he passed away. Julia then moved back to Marysville. It was there that she married again in 1982.

She leaves behind her children; Susan Jones Lee, and Laminda Jones Wojdylak, Daughter-in-law Sharon Childs Jones Purcell, and was accepted as Mother/Matriarch lovingly, with her second and third marriages, by Ron and Nancy Erickson, Dorothy and the late Ron Baker, Mary and Richard Calderon and Christine and Doc Livingston. She leaves behind from these three marriages a myriad of grandchildren, many great grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren, nieces and nephews. All of those who knew her adored her and called her respectfully Mother, Grandmother, GG and Aunt.

She outlived her son Spencer (Mike) Jones and his wife Lois, her sisters Sarah Guichard and Jane Gates, and three husbands: Spencer Wallace Jones, George Erickson, and Glen McDougal. A very special Thank You to Mom's dear friend Nancy Stevens who stayed and helped until the end and who had adopted her as her Mother and was thought of as such by Mom, Mindi and Susan. Julia will especially be missed dearly besides her immediate family, her daughter and son Nancy and Ron Erickson who doted on her and those of the families who lived close enough to visit and support her on a regular basis, like her Niece Natalie Richardson and family and Grand-daughter Sara Bradley and family.

She was loved by so many and had dear, dear friends far and wide of whom you can be counted (you know who you are). Also we would like to send a big thank you to the members of Freedom Hospice who provided affectionate and tender care for Julia in the last few months of her life.

We will post dates for services when they are decided. Julia will rest with her first husband Spencer W. Jones in the Browns Valley Cemetery, Browns Valley California.
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