Margaret Jones Allen

CORDELE — Memorial services for Margaret Jones Allen will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 in the chapel of Hughes & Wright Funeral Home. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 10 a.m. until the hour of the funeral.
Ms. Allen, 76, died Tuesday morning, Apr. 20, 2010 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. She was born in Waycross, Ga., on Apr. 8, 1934 to the late Russell Allen Jones and Margaret Blount Jones. She was also a member of the Cordele First United Methodist Church, the Wesley Sunday School Class and the choir.
Margaret owned Russell A. Jones Jewelry for 35 years later working for J. W. Designs for the past four years. She was a registered gemologist, certified appraiser and wedding consultant. She was a past president of the Georgia Jewelers Association. Margaret was also a past director of the Cordele-Crisp Clean Community having founded it in 1984. She was active in two bridge clubs, Sunday Coffee and the "Lunch Bunch"
Margaret graduated from Cordele High School in 1952 and attended Agnes Scott College. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia in 1956. Her master's degree in speech pathology was received from Auburn University in 1971. She was a member of Alpha Delta Pi
She is survived by her daughters: Anne Allen of Jacksonville, Fla. and Kathy McDonald, and her husband Scott, of Peachtree City, Ga.; a very special granddaughter: Frances Anne McDonald; her brother: Russell A. Jones, M.D., and his wife Katie of, Chattanooga, Tenn.; a niece Jennifer Jones and a nephew Jason Jones.
An online guestbook is available at www.hughesandwright.com. Hughes & Wright Funeral Home is entrusted with these arrangements.