The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, March 22, 1996                 TAG: 9603220484
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: SUFFOLK                            LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

MARY JONES

Mary Helen Jones, 87, of the 5300 block of Carolina Road, died Thursday, March 21, 1996, in Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.

Miss Jones was born in Suffolk. She was the daughter of the late Richard H. and Mrs. Emma Savage Jones. She was a retired nurse and a member of Parker's United Methodist Church.

Surviving are one brother, Paul T. Jones of Elizabeth City, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday in Miller Funeral Home, Gatesville, N.C., by the Rev. Kenneth Bunch. Burial will follow in Parker's United Methodist Church Cemetery. Friends may join the family today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Lucille Jones, 5352 Carolina Road, Suffolk, and following the service in the social hall of Parker's Church.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB