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Fred Dale Jones I, 79, a resident of the Sugarlands Community, Hambleton, West Virginia, departed this life Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, on his farm. Death was unexpected.
He was born Sunday, May 7, 1944, at home on Pifer Mt., St. George, West Virginia, a son of the late Harold French and Lottie Vesta Nestor Jones.
On March 22, 1969, at the Gladeview Church of the Brethren at Red House, Maryland, he was married to the former Brenda Sue Knotts, who survives. They had celebrated 54 years of marriage.
Also surviving are one son, Fred Dale Jones II and wife, Jenn, of Parsons; four brothers, his twin brother, Clint Jones of Pifer Mt., Loren Jones and wife, Bonnie, of Illinois, Allen Jones and wife, Carol, of Parsons, and Connie Jones of Clover; two sisters, Narel Hebb and Ralph of Location and Kathy Stump and husband, Robert, of Pifer Mt.; brothers-and-sisters-in- law, Sherri Smith and husband, John, of Holly Meadows and Lori Lipscomb and husband, Tom, of Morgantown; two grandchildren, Kenya Jones of Parsons and Bailey Bennett of Charleston; and special friends, Greg and Tim Knotts and Delmas Hardy.
Preceding him in death are his father- and mother-in-law, Ronald and Vera Knotts.
He attended the school at Pifer Mountain and graduated from Parsons High School with the class of 1963. He was a member of the FFA, all four years of high school and won the Chapter State Farmer Award. He was a veteran of the United States Army, serving during the Vietnam War with the 1st Signal Corps, serving with the 44 Battalion.
He was a former employee of the U.S. Forest Service, Donnie Poling's Texaco Service, the former Dorman Mills and retired in 2003 from Kingsford Charcoal Co., as a dozer operator for almost 32 years. Fred loved sports, especially Tucker County, the Mountaineers, the Steelers and the Pirates.
He enjoyed going to the Bluegrass Festival and working on the family farm and hunting and fishing and the memorable hunting trips to Westcliffe, Colorado.
Fred never met a stranger.
The family received friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons on Sunday.
Final rites will be conducted from the funeral home on Monday, Nov.r 13, 2023, at 11 a.m.
The Rev. Deborah Strawser and the Rev. Justin Jones will officiate and interment will follow at the Sugarlands Church of the Brethren Cemetery at Sugarlands, where the WV. Army Honor Guard, the H. W. Daniels Post 29 American Legion, the Tygart Valley Post 3647 Veterans of Foreign War and the Tucker Co. Veterans Assoc. will conduct full military honors.
The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to Sugarlands Church of the Brethren, 218 Holly Meadows Road, Parsons, WV 26287.
The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for Fred Dale Jones I.
Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com.