Edgar Jones

Mr. Eddie Jones, age 96, of Dyer, Tennessee, passed away from this life on February 2, 2014, at the Dyer Nursing Home. Funeral services for Mr. Jones will be conducted on Thursday, February 6, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Dyer with Bro. Jim Calhoun officiating. Interment will follow in Oakwood Cemetery of Dyer. Mr. Jones was born September 8, 1917, in Lexington, Tennessee; the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Walter and Frankie Gooch Jones. He was a retiree of Texas Gas Transmission Corp and a member of Dyer United Methodist Church. Mr. Jones is survived by daughter, Gail Jones Emrich and husband Louie of Kenton, son, Gary Jones and wife Brenda of Monticello, Florida; grandchildren, Lisa Emrich Brewer and husband, David of Rutherford, Allison Emrich of Dyersburg; great-grandchildren, Clay and Austin Brewer of Rutherford; sisters, Virginia Jones Turnbow of Satillo, Tennessee, Irene Jones Pittsenbarger of California. He was preceded in death by his parents, two wives, Mrs. Fern Harrison Jones and Mrs. Mary Helen Bryant Jones; also by siblings Randolph Jones of Baltimore, Maryland and Evaleena (Lena) Jones Edmondson of Johnson City, Marie Jones Humphries of Kingsport, and Ruby Jones Bledsoe of Sardis. The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Wednesday, February 5. Karnes & Son Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Mr. Eddie Jones.