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Sarah Elizabeth Jones, affectionately known to many as “Sis” or “Mrs. Jones” was born September 9, 1939, to the late Wilson Smith Sr. and Geraldine Anthony Smith. After nearly two decades of Dementia, which in turned became Alzheimer’s, she took her rest and moved on to her new heavenly home on March 1, 2025. Sarah Jones is preceded in the death by her grandmother, Rosetta Anthony; parents, Wilson and Geraldine Smith; husband, Joseph L. Jones, Sr.; son, Jerome Jones; grandchildren, Omar White and Charlexus Jones; and siblings, Hazel Lundy, McArthur Smith, and Wilson Smith, Jr. Sis was a great wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, or just overall person no matter what role she played in one’s life. Due to being a housewife, she ended up being a babysitter for almost “everyone’s” children. She was not one that was big on sending kids to daycare facilities, therefore she operated her own daycare center from her house. She raised her own children, then went on to help raise some of the grandchildren and then down to the great-grands, and honorary grands (those babies/children she cared for over the years. She leaves to cherish, three daughters, Brenda White (Bay Bay), Thelma Jones and Patricia Lowe; two sons, Joseph Jones Jr. (Terry) and Charles Jones; seven grandchildren, NaTasha White, JerVon Jones, ShaNa Griffin, CheNeice Jones, Jessica Jones, Joseph Jones III, and NaKia Jones; eighteen great-grandchildren; one brother, Herbert Smith Sr. (Catherine); one sister, Rosa Mae Paige (John); a host of nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Remains rest at Joseph Jenkins Jr. Funeral Home, 2011 Grayland Avenue where funeral services will be held on Monday, March 10, 2025, at 12noon. Interment, Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
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