- Stevens Point Daily Journal,Stevens Point, WI, Wednesday, March 20, 1991
Evelyn Marie Jones; Evelyn Marie Jones, 86, 2315 Prais St., died Tuesay morning, at St. Michae l's Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Stanislaus Cat holic Church. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Boston Funer al Home. The Rev. Donald Przybylski and the Rev. Patrick Norris, O.P., Bl essed Sacrement Catholic Church, Madison, will co-officiate. A prayer ser vice will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
A memorial has been established in her name for the Hospice of Portage Cou nty and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Scholarship Fund.
She was born March 31, 1904, in Stevens Point, daughter of the late Dr. Da niel and Elizabeth Rice. She graduated from Emerson HIgh School and th en from Stevens Point Normal School. She later attended Northwestern Univ ersity.
Mrs. Jones taught in the Stevens Point school system for several years bef ore teaching piano at the Stevens Point Conservatory of Music.
She was married to Richard L. Jones on Aug. 18, 1934, in Stevens Poin t. He died Sept. 22.
Mrs. Jones was a member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, a charter memb er of the Twilight Music Club and a member of the Stevens Point Dance Clu b. She was also a member of Tau Gamma Beta sorority.
Survivors include one son, Stephen C. (Peg), Green Bay; two daughters, Sus an E. (Louis) Molepske, Stevens Point, and Madeline A. (William) Drew, Mad ison; one brother, Dr. Maurice Rice, Stevens Point; two sisters, Ruth (Rob ert) Bablitch, Stevens Point, and Elizabeth (Gapen), Riverside, Ill.; a nd 10 grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three brothers and one sister.
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