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services will begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the mortuary. Burial
will be at Oak View Memorial Park in Antioch. Mrs. Jones
died Thursday at Delta Memorial Hospital in Antioch. She
was 71.
Ruth was a native of Lincoln. Arkansas. She had been an
East County resident since 1950. She was a ho1ncrnaker.
Mrs. Jones belonged to the Church of God in Oakley and
was a member of senior citizens dubs in Oakley and
Antioch.
Her husband Charles Samuel Jones who died in August 1979
preceded her in death. She is survived by t\.vo sons. Donald
Jones of Brentwood and Waymond Jones of West
Pittsburgh; her daughter, Carol Sautter of Antioch; her
brother, Ambrose Snodgrass of Lincoln, Ark.; four sisters.
Geneva McCratic, Jeanette Green and Clara Bea Risley, all
of Arkansas, and Dorothy Flanary of Oakley; five
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Document 10.45. Obituary for Charles Samuel "Sam"
Jones.
Funeral services for retired steelworker Sam Jones, 80, of
Oakley, California were held August 15 in Antioch,
California. Sam Jones died August 13, 1979 at Delta
Memorial Hospital. He was born in Washington County,
Arkansas. He was a farmer for several years. The son of the
late T. A. Jones and Mary Barber Jones of Summers, he
married and then moved to Brentwood, Calif. but returned to
Arkansas in 1945.
Jones again settled in California in 1947 and worked at U.S.
Steel in Pittsburgh from 1950 until he retired in 1973. He
was a member of the United Steel Workers Union Local
1440.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth Jones of Oakley, Calif.; two
sons, Donald Wayne Jones of Brentwood, California and
Waymond Alvin Jones of Oakley; one daughter, Carol Faye
Sautter of Antioch, California; five brothers. John Jones and
Kenny Jones, both of Summers, Ark.; Ted Jones of
Westville; Forrest Jones of Orland, Calif. and James (Jim)
Jones of Valencia, California; and six sisters, Alice
Campbell of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, Anna Chadwell of
Oklahoma City. Okla. Ruth Freedle Of Fosse!, Oregon and
Bertha Randolph of St. Helens, Oregon. Burial was in the
Oak View Cemetery at Antioch.
I Document I 0.46. Obituary for Earl Alexander Collins.
Earl Alexander Collins, 90, died Monday. November 26 at
Abilene, Texas. He was born June 30, 1900 at Lincoln, the
son of James F. and Anna Snodgrass Collins. lie came to
Abilene in 1925. On Dec. 29, 1930 he married Lois Gier
Collins. He farmed west of Abilene until 1940 and from
1940 to 1965 he was a pipeline inspector for the National
Cooperative Refinery Association. He was a member of the
First Presbyterian Church and AARP. Seven brothers and
one sister preceded him in death.
lie is survived by his wife Lois of the home, two daughters;
Maxine Conner, Camarillo, California and Nell Gene Keller,
Garland, Texas, two sons; Kenneth Collins, Garland, Texas
and Jerry Collins of Leavenworth, Kansas, mne
grandchildren and one great grandchild, One brother, Paul,
Santa Paula, California and four sisters, Ira Parks, Abilene:
Lizzie Angel, Battle Creek, Michigan: Louise Crammer,
Taft. California; and Corene Trostle, Denison, Texas.
Document 10.47. Obituary for (Lewis Lafayette) Fayette
L. Collins.
(Lewis Layette) Fayette L. Collins. 72, died December 3,
1976 at the Memorial Hospital following an extended
illness. He was born April 7, 1904, in Lincoln, Arkansas the
son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Collins. On July 16, 1937, he
married Melba Masters in Lincoln and they came to Abilene,
Kansas in 1942 to make their home.
Before he retired Rollie Clemence employed him as a
farmer. He was a member of th~ First United Presbyterian
Church of Abilene. Surviving are his wife. Melba, of the
home: a son, Ronald Collins of Wichita; five sisters, Mrs.
Iva Parks. Abilene; Mrs. Corinne Trostle, Tecumseh,
Oklahoma, Mrs. Ed Cranmer of Taft, Calif.. Mrs. Ira Angel
and Mrs. George Stanley, both of Battle Creek, Michigan;
and Paul Collins. Santa Paula, California; two grandchildren
and other relatives.
Services were held in the First United Presbyterian Church
with the Rev, William Webster and the Rev. Gordon Rhodes
ofliciating with burial in the Abilene Cemetery.
Document 10.48. Obituary for Viola Goldie Pridemore
Snodgrass.
Viola G. Snodgrass. 80, of Lincoln. died Feb. 22, 1983
at her home. She was born Nov_. 22, 1902, in Lincoln, the
daughter of George and Virginia A. Jones Pridemore. She
was a member of the Lincoln First Baptist \:hurch. Survivors
include five sons, Roy Snodgrass, L.E. Snodgrass, Bob
Snodgrass and John Snodgrass all of Lincoln, and Lonnie
Snodgrass of Atwood. Kansas; 12 grandchildren, 15 greatgrandchildren.
Services were conducted Saturday at the
Lincoln First Baptist Church with burial in the Lincoln
Cemetery.
I Document I 0.49. Obituary for James Ernest Leach.
James Ernest Leach, 76. of Lincoln, died May 29, 1986 at a
Fayetteville Hospital. He was born May 15. 1910, in
Morrow, Arkansas the son of Earl and Belle Reed Leach. He
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