Individual Details

Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Friday, August 14, 1953, Page 2, Col. 1: Mrs. Melvin A. Jones. Funeral services for Mrs. Melvin A. Jones, 84, of 505 Third St., Casebeer Heights, who died of carcinoma Thursday at 3 p.m. in Schoitz Memorial hospital following an illness of five years, will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. in the Chapel of Memories. Rev. J. A. Hawhlen, pastor of United Calvary Evangelical church, will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery at Nashua. Mrs. Jones was born Ora A. Brisco, Sept. 23, 1889, at Nashua, daughter of Thomas and Jennie Brisco. She resided in Casebeer Heights and vicinity 35 years. Surviving besides her husband, Melvin, are a son, Frank A., of Tacoma, Wash., a daughter, Mrs. Vera Jones, Casebeer Heights; two brothers, Clyde Brisco of Duluth, Minn., and Benjamin Brisco, Long Beach, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Clara Smith, also of Long Beach, and five grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one daughter, one son, two sisters and her parents.

Birth	23 Sep 1889	Nashua, Chickasaw Co., Iowa
Marriage	2 Feb 1906	Clinton, Clinton Co., Iowa - Melvin Albert Jones
Death	13 Aug 1953	Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., Iowa
Burial		Oak Hill Cemetery, Nashua, Chickasaw Co., Iowa

Spouse	Melvin Albert Jones (1886 - 1961)
Child	Leona Genevieve Jones (1906 - 1921)
Child	Vera Jones (1909 - 1986)
Child	Frank Albert Jones (1911 - 1965)
Child	Vernon Melvin Jones (1915 - 1932)

Father	Thomas Jefferson Briscoe (1846 - 1908)
Mother	Jennie Lee Clason (1858 - 1908)
Sibling	Grace May Brisco (1880 - 1944)
Sibling	Clara Daisy Brisco (1884 - 1982)
Sibling	Clyde Clifford Brisco (1884 - 1959)
Sibling	Benjamin Harrison Brisco (1890 - 1969)
Sibling	Elizabeth "Bessie" Fern Brisco (1894 - 1916)