of Indiatlantic, FL

July 18, 1918 - February 28, 2009

Lon Jones, age 90, of Indialantic, Florida and Lakeview, Arkansas, died at his Indialantic home Friday, February 28, 2009.
Visitation will be from Noon-9:00 P.M. Saturday, March 7, 2009, at Roller Funeral Home with the family receiving friends from 6-8:00 P.M. Funeral Services will be at 2:00 P.M. Sunday in the Roller Chapel with Reverend Dr. David Johnson officiating. Interment with military honors will be in Mountain Home Cemetery.
He was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, on July 18, 1918. He grew up in Mountain Home, one of four children born to Lon and Gertrude Simpson Jones. He was a graduate of Mountain Home High School class of 1936.
Lon joined the U.S. Navy in 1940 and served in active duty as a naval aviator and flight instructor during World War II until 1945. He then served in the Naval Reserve and retired after thirty years of military service with the rank of Commander.
He married Marguerite Damron of Flippin, Arkansas, in 1946. After attending Arkansas Tech in Russellville, he graduated from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville with a degree in banking and finance. Upon graduation from the U. of A. he worked at Peoples Bank and Trust (now First Security Bank and Trust) for three years. His father also had a 39-year banking career at Peoples Bank.
Lon accepted a position in 1954 with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as a bank examiner. He worked for the FDIC for 30 years in Missouri.
Lon was a lifelong avid fly fisherman on the streams and lakes of North Central Arkansas. During their retirement years, Lon and Marguerite lived in Lakeview, Arkansas in the summer and Indialantic, Florida in the winter. He enjoyed many a day of golfing in sunny Florida.
Lon was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Lucille Jones who had lived in Little Rock. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Marguerite; his brother Stanley Jones and sister-in-law Nita of Mountain Home; his sister Barbara Isom of Conway; his daughter Carol Ann Jones of Olathe, Kansas; his son John Jones and daughter-in-law Irish of Atlanta, Texas; his daughter Gail Jones of Paola, Kansas; his son Jerry Jones of Olathe, Kansas; his granddaughter Karin Bohlken of Shawnee Mission, Kansas; his granddaughter Elizabeth Burns of Houston, Texas; his grandson Eli Jones of New York, New York; his grandson Aaron Obermiller of Harrisonville, Missouri; his grandson Jared Obermiller of Harrisonville, Missouri; his granddaughter Angela Arenholz of Shawnee, Kansas and also several nieces, nephews and great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made in his memory to the Alzheimer's Foundation; the Humane Society or First Baptist Church of Mountain Home.

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