Cape Girardeau, MO--LLOYD ALVIN JONES, 80, Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, January 14, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital, Cape Girardeau, MO. No services are scheduled. His remains will be interred in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, MO.
Mr. Jones was born December 16, 1916, in Stillings, MO, the son of John Rufus and Hazel Irene Orendorff Jones. He married Myrtle McGinnis on October 24, 1936, in Liberty, MO. She preceded him in death on June 20, 1988. He later married Katrina Moffett Kesterson on January 3, 1974, in Cape Girardeau, MO. She preceded him in death on June 22, 1994.
Mr. Jones was a member of the First Baptist Church of Leeds, MO. He was also a member of V.F.W. Post 3838 in Cape Girardeau. He was a truck driver for Dealers Transport of Kansas City, MO, and Schwerman Trucking Company of Milwaukee, WI, retiring in 1978. He is survived by two sons, Kenneth A. Jones, Liberty, MO, and Gary Wayne Jones, London, England; one stepson, Alan Kesterson, St. Peter's, MO; one daughter, Debra Jean Jones, Englewood, CO; six grandchildren; and two step-grandchildren. (Arrangements: Ford & Sons Funeral Home, Cape Girardeau, MO)  --Kansas City Star, The (MO) - January 18, 1997