Individual Details

Married Viola Callies (1911-1988)

Obituary of son Oral Ray Jones
The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) — Friday, August 12, 2011
Oral Ray Jones, 80, died Thursday. Services 2 p.m. Monday
The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) — Sunday, August 14, 2011
Oral Ray Jones
September 25, 1930 - August 11, 2011
EDMOND
Oral Ray Jones passed from this life on August 11, 2011 at his home, surrounded by family, after a brief battle with liver cancer. Services will be held Monday, August 15, at 2:00 pm, at Baggerley Funeral Home. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Ada Baker Jones. The family has asked, in lieu of flowers, gifts be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for liver cancer research, 825 Northeast 13th, OKC 73104

The Edmond Sun (OK) — Monday, August 15, 2011
Oral Ray Jones passed from this life on August 11, 2011 at his home surrounded by family after a brief battle with liver cancer.
Oral Ray "O'Ray" or "Uncle O" was born September 25, 1930 to Oral Samuel and Viola Mae Callies Jones at the home of his grandparents, Otto and Eda Mae Callies, 8 miles south of Wellston, Okla.
Oral Ray moved to Edmond in 1936 and always said that he went to every school in Edmond except Clegern during his school years.
He met Ada Mae Baker in the seventh grade, and eventually married her their senior year on February 5, 1949.
He started working at Van's Bakery of Edmond when he was 12, greasing pans, dunking donuts, loading delivery trucks and then as a salesman until 1963. He went to work as a salesman for Frito-Lay (Pepsico) in 1962 and retired from Frito-Lay in September 1992.
After retirement, they moved to Lake Texoma for 13 years where they had many dear friends. They relocated back to Edmond in 2006 to be close to their family once again.
Oral was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather who loved his family. He also had a great love of the outdoors and enjoyed fishing, water skiing or just sitting in the boat listening to his music. He will be greatly missed and always loved.
Oral Ray was preceded in death by his mother and father and his brother, Jimmie Lee Jones.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Ada Baker Jones; daughter, Raenada Jones Fitzgerald and husband, Bill, and son, Michael Ray Jones, and wife Cindy Fowlkes Jones. He had four grandchildren and spouses: Christy Batterson and husband Jim, Edward Bryan Fitzgerald, Dr. Jessica Jones and husband Trevor Rhoads, Alex Jones, and two great-grandchildren: Emily Rae Batterson and Elliott James Batterson; brother, Tommie Jones and wife Linda of Harrah, Okla., sister-in-law Bonnie Jones of Edmond and nieces, nephews and cousins.

Birth	21 Dec 1908	Oklahoma
Death	25 Nov 1990	Edmond, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Father	Albert Lafayette Jones (1873 - 1916)
Mother	Frances Lavada Frazier (1870 - 1950)
Sibling	Grace G. Jones (1891 - 1944)
Sibling	Ina Maud Jones (1899 - 1960)
Sibling	Eva Jones (1900 - 1923)
Sibling	Faye Lorene Jones (1903 - 2010)
Sibling	Flo Ruth Jones (1906 - 2009)
Sibling	James Lowell Jones (1911 - 1969)