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 Dorothea B. Jones
November 30, 2003
Dorothea B. Jones, 91, of Kimball Farms died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield.
Born in Boston on Nov. 7, 1912, daughter of Eliot and Theodora Bowditch Jones, she was raised in the Beacon Hill section of Boston. She attended Beaver School and later attended Smith College and the University of Munich in Germany.
Upon her return from Germany, she worked as a secretary in the pathology department of Babies Hospital, Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.
During World War II, Miss Jones worked at the Newport (R.I.) Naval Hospital as a junior research psychophysiologist. She also worked for the Navy in San Diego.
Following World War II, she went to Poland for the Unitarian Service Committee as director of its Polish medical team. She spent four years overseas, working in hospitals in British-occupied Germany and in a 200-bed hospital in Silesia, Poland.
Miss Jones returned to college and obtained bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees at Boston University in psychiatric social work, which she practiced at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston for many years until her retirement.
She also served as an adjunct faculty member at the Simmons School of Social Work.
She was a great lover of dogs and cats, fantasy genre literature and New England history.
Miss Jones had resided at Kimball Farms since 1989 and prior to that in Arlington and Boston.
She was also a part-time resident of Sterling for much of her life.
She leaves no immediate family.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- There will be no funeral or memorial service, but instead, an ice cream social in her honor at Kimball Farms on Sunday, Dec. 7, from 2 to 4. Dorothea was known for her wisdom, intelligence and robust sense of humor.
She enjoyed close, lifelong relationships with friends and relatives throughout New England and the world. She never married and neither she nor her sister, the late Selma Jones Wheaton, had children.
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