Wasco-Hood River County OR Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Lewis Enoch January 26, 2006
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The Dalles Chronicle, January 31, 2006
     Lewis Enoch Jones, 95, a former The Dalles resident, died Thursday, Jan. 
26, 2006 in Nampa, Idaho, of natural causes. 
     He was born March 5, 1910 to Charles Lewis and Ruth Etta Kenworthy Jones 
in Esbon, Kansas. He attended schools at various places as he grew up. He 
first moved to Oregon from Idaho Falls when he was 18. Working with animals 
and farming took him to several places in the Pacific Northwest. He logged 
with horses, purchasing his first chainsaw in 1944, it weighed 135 lbs and had 
a seven-foot chain. 
     He married Delfa Pearl Barzee on Sept. 24, 1930 in the Logan Utah Temple. 
After she died, he married Glendella Jane McNee in The Dalles, August 11, 
1984. 
     In the Hood River area, he began working at the Cascade Locks Mill in 
1964, retiring after 11 years in 1975. He served as municipal judge for 
Cascade Locks from 1965 to 1969. He worked as the custodian at the Church of 
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in The Dalles for several years. He was a 
temple worker at the Seattle and Portland Temples for over 12 years. 
     He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 
     He lived in Cascade Locks, Mosier and Wyeth before moving to The Dalles 
in 1974. In 1984 he moved to Odell until he went to Nampa to be closer to 
family in 1997.
     Survivors include two sons and daughters in law, Clark and Lucy Jones, 
Coos Bay; Neil and Shirley Jones, Saratoga Springs, Utah; two daughters and 
sons in law, Ellen and Don Kohler, LaGrande; Cheryl and Jim Clausen, Nampa; 
daughter-in-law, Freidle Jones, Warden, Wash.; two brothers Lester H. Jones, 
St. Anthony, Idaho; William T. Jones, Idaho Falls, Idaho; two step children 
and more than 104 descendents.
     Besides his wives Delfa and Glendella, he was preceded in death by a son 
Melvin Lewis Jones, a brother Wayne C. Jones, and two sisters Verda Esther 
Jones Dobbins and Neva Jones.
     Visitation will be 10 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 31, and funeral service will 
begin at 11 a.m. at the LDS Church in Hood River. Vault interment will follow 
in the IOOF Cemetery on Threemile Road in The Dalles.
     Anderson’s Tribute Center is in charge of local arrangements. 


Additional Comments:
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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