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DATE: Friday, June 30, 1995                  TAG: 9506300421
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: RICHMOND                           LENGTH: Short :   22 lines

THELMA V. JONES

Thelma V. Jones, 86, died Wednesday, June 28, 1995.

She is survived by two daughters, Betty Shoop of Richmond and Lorene Wade of Virginia Beach; four sons, Ralph S. Jones of Virginia Beach, Robert Thomas Jones of Richmond, Joseph R. Jones of Richmond and Ronald I. Jones of Sandston; two sisters, Edna Smith of Wise and Margaret Williams of Clintwood; 12 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. today in Bethel Baptist Church in Richmond. Interment will be at 2:30 p.m. at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in Norfolk.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB