March 28, 2024

Thelma Jones

Winterset

Thelma Jones, 89, of Winterset, formerly of Corning, died April 30, 2016, at Westbridge Care and Rehab Center in Winterset.

Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Thursday, May 5, at Powers Funeral Home, junction of highways 34 and 25, in Creston. The Rev. Mary O'Riley will officiate. Family will receive friends from noon to 1 p.m. at the funeral home prior to the service. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery in Cromwell. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Central Iowa or a charity of your choice. Online condolences may be left at www.powersfh.com.

Thelma Jeane Jones, daughter of Fern (Nidey) and Vern Hubert Dix, was born April 7, 1927, in Grand Junction. Thelma graduated from Cromwell High School in 1945.

In 1946, Thelma married Rex Sammons in Shreveport, Louisiana. They settled on a farm south of Cromwell, where she was a mother and farmwife. They later divorced, and she moved to Creston in 1952 and began cleaning houses, which she did until she retired in 2007.

In October 1988, Thelma married Leland Firm Jones at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They settled in Strawberry, Arizona, for a short time before returning to Corning in 2000. She moved to Winterset in 2016.

Thelma is survived by a daughter, Janet Elquest, of Des Moines; brothers, Gerald (Ruth) Dix of Council Bluffs and Hubert Dix, Jr. of Pontiac, Illinois; sisters, Shirley (Merrill) Davenport of Adel and Karen (Mick) Ripperger of Grinnell; sister-in-law Connie Dix of Phoenix, Arizona and many nieces and nephews.

Thelma was preceded in death by her parents; husband Leland Jones; son Ronnie Sammons; brothers, Robert Dix, Richard Dix and Forrest Dix and sister Frances Winship.