This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones, Vincent, Clark Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/3016 Message Board Post: Cheyenne and the entire community was shocked and grieved by the seeming untimely passing of Jack Jones in Roswell, New Mexico, Saturday night, November 30, 1963. Mr. Jones had been seriously ill for the past month and had just recently undergone the second major operation during that time. Jack "Pinkey" Jones served as high school athlete coach in the Cheyenne school for 12 years. He resigned last summer to accept a similar position in Roswell, New Mexico. He was an outstanding coach who produced many teams that won district and regional honors, as well as many individual players who went on to play college basketball. That he had made a place in the hearts of the people of this community was attested by the large number of persons who passed by his casket Tuesday to pay final respect to one who had mingled with them. Numerous persons who had played basketball under his instruction come from great distances to be present for the funeral. Jack Wesley Jones was born September 18, 1927 at Clinton, Oklahoma and passed away in Roswell, New Mexico on November 30, 1963. On August 17, 1953 he was married to Miss Jan Vincent of Cheyenne. To this union three children were born who with the wife survive. Other survovors include four brothers Paul of Bakersfield, California, Loren and Richard of San Lendro, California, and Jay of Butler, Oklahoma and one sister, Jessie Clark of Taloga. He was a member of the Baptist church. During World War II he attained the rank of sergeant in the army. Funeral services were conducted in the Baptist church of Cheyenne Tuesday afternoon, December 3, 1963. Rev. Laddie Adams of Enid, a former pastor officiated with the assistance of Rev. Herman Ledford, pastor of the church. Committal was in the Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under direction of Scroggins and Son. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK