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DATE: Saturday, March 9, 1996                TAG: 9603090370
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: STUART, FLA.                       LENGTH: Short :   28 lines

BERNICE B. JONES

Bernice I. Baker Jones, 88, of the 2900 block of S.E. Ocean Blvd., died March 7, 1996.

Born on Oct. 16, 1907, in Gates County, N.C., she was a daughter of the late Richard Harrison and Dora Speight Baker and the widow of Floyd M. Jones. She was a member of Savages United Methodist Church and its United Methodist Women in Gates County.

Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Joyce and Pete Hickman of Stuart; two brothers, Raleigh ``Cutie'' E. Baker of Virginia Beach, Henry Holmes Baker of Burleson, Texas; two grandchildren, Sharon Floyd of Marbury, Ala., Stephen Hickman of Tiffin, Ohio; three great-grandchildren, Robyn and Curtis Floyd and Desiree Coffman.

A funeral will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. in the R.W. Baker and Co., Funeral Home, Suffolk, by the Rev. Ann Giles-Benson with burial in Holly Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends in the funeral home on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to Savages United Methodist Church.

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