Margaret Alma (Johnson) Jones (1925 - 2010)

Born 14 Jan 1925 in Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 17 Jul 2010 at age 85 in South Carolina, United States

Biography

Margaret Alma Johnson Jones, 85, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, passed away Saturday morning, July 17, 2010. She was born in Loyall, Kentucky to Andrew K. Johnson and Betty Payne Johnson on January 14, 1925.

Alma was interred at Riverview Memorial Park on Thursday, July 22, 2010 with friends and family present for a graveside service.

Alma's first job was as a bookkeeper for her father's contracting business in Harlan, Kentucky. She met her husband, Donald Jones, while working as a stenographer at the University of Tennessee Agricultural College in Knoxville, Tennessee. As a military wife, Alma traveled extensively with her husband and their two children living in France and Germany for several years in the late1950's.

When Alma moved to Charleston, South Carolina with her family in 1963, she was a full-time wife and mother while working part-time at a local real estate office. After she retired in 1985, she filled her days with art lessons, doll-making, ceramics, and babysitting her young grandchildren.

Alma was predeceased by her parents; her brothers, Victor Owen Johnson and William Charles Johnson; and her daughter, Sharon Jones Satterwhite.

Alma is survived by her husband, Donald Jones, her son Donald Louis Jones and his wife Clarice Marchman-Jones, her grandsons William Satterwhite, Harper Marchman-Jones and Dylan Marchman-Jones and her granddaughter, Sherry Lynn Satterwhite.

Sources

• Findagrave and Satterwhite Family history, posted by D. Marshall Satterwhite.