Gretchen (Pemberton) Jones (1908 - 2001)

Born 12 Aug 1908 in Iberia, Miller County, Missouri, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Blucher Jones — married 9 Apr 1964 (to 19 Jun 1981) in Dayton, Tenn

Died 20 Mar 2001 at age 92 in Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA

Biography

Gretchen was born in 1908. She was the daughter of Wade Alexander Pemberton and Edna Frances Wall. She passed away in 2001.

Sources

• obit:

Gretchen Pemberton Jones, 92, St. Louis, formerly of Iberia, died March 20, 2001, at Barnes-Jewish Extended Care Facility, St. Louis.

She was born Aug. 12, 1908, near Iberia, a daughter of Wade A. and Edna Francis Wall Pemberton. She was married April 9, 1964, in Dayton, Tenn., to Dr. Andrew B. Jones, who died June 19, 1981.

She was a 1927 graduate of the Iberia Academy, a 1929 graduate of Iberia Junior College and a 1931 graduate of Drury College, Springfield. She was a medical technician at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, and worked as a secretary and lab technician for a group of doctors.

After her retirement she lived on Chickamauga Lake in Tennessee, and Lake Okeechobee in Florida. In 1976, she helped establish the Andrew B. Jones and Gretchen P. Jones Professorship in Neurology at Washington University Medical School, St. Louis.

She was a member of the Iberia Congregational Christian Church.

Survivors include: one stepson, Andrew B. Jones Jr., Adams, Tenn.; two stepdaughters, Pat Ingles, Marathon, Fla., and Barbara Pemberton, Cape Girardeau; three sisters, Wilma Birge, Seymour, Ind., Janet Wilson, Florissant, and Jean Keeth, Iberia; and two brothers, Don Pemberton, Cape Girardeau and Victor Pemberton, Tuscumbia.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Rekus Funeral Home, Iberia. The Rev. RoseEllen Hoff will officiate. Private family burial will be in the Williams-Pemberton family cemetery, near Iberia.