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 Lulu Dee Jones
March 20, 2005
Lulu Dee Jones, 84, of 95 Lincoln St. died Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center.
Born in Panama City, Fla., on Jan. 15, 1921, daughter of Edward and Jessie Maebelle Darby Pollard, she attended schools in Alabama.
She also attended Berkshire Community College. She resided in Troy, N.Y., for many years before moving to Pittsfield in 1969.
Ms. Jones was employed as a certified nursing assistant at Springside Nursing Home, the former Berkshire Nursing Home, the former Valley View Nursing in Lenox, and at the former Willowood Nursing Home, now Hillcrest Commons, from which she retired in 1987. She had first worked as a teacher's aide in the Head Start program at the former Tucker School and later as an assembler at Greylock Plastics.
She enjoyed cooking, shopping, gardening, flowers and her house plants.
Her husband, Henry Jones, is deceased.
She leaves her companion of 36 years, Mackie L. Mosley; a brother, James D. Andrews of Northampton; and five sisters, Rocelle Morand of New York City, Lottie Payton of Bascom, N.Y., Mary Bell of Crestview, Fla., Anna R. Andrews of Panama City and Pinkie Andrews of Pittsburgh.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services for Lulu D. Jones, who went home to the Lord on Palm Sunday, March 20, 2005, will be conducted Saturday at 10:30 at DERY FUNERAL HOME, 54 Bradford St., Pittsfield, by the Rev. Carol K. Towley, pastor of Second Congregational Church.
Burial will follow in Pittsfield Cemetery. The family will receive relatives and friends at the funeral home Saturday from 9:30 until the time of the service. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Kid's Place in care of the funeral home. Lulu raised her sister Anna's six children, since birth, Roger Lee Nelson, Ann Marie Tinsley, Zainab Tinsley, Denise Tinsley, Steffon Ashley and Brett Andrews.
She is also survived by a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by two brothers and a sister.
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