WILLIAM JONES III
William Jones III,
37, of Inger, Minnesota
formally of Ponemah, died Sunday, April 10, 2005 at Deer
River, Minnesota. Cease Family
Funeral Home of Blackduck is assisting the family
with arrangements
Traditional Indian
services will be held Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 12:00 P.M. at the Ponemah Community Center in Ponemah,
Minnesota with Spiritual Leader Thomas Stillday Jr.
officiating. A wake will begin on
Tuesday, April 12th in at the Ponemah Community Center
and will continue until the services.
Burial will be at the Family Burials in Ponemah, Minnesota.
Honorary
pallbearers will be Terry Jones, Dallas Stillday, Delmer Martin, Carl Fairbanks, Jr., Chris Strong, and Tom Ravensberg.
Active pallbearers
will be Mike Ostlund, Carl Fairbanks, Sr., Bruce Dow,
Phillip Fineday, Jr., Earl Raincloud,
and Barry King.
William was born
on September 25, 1967 at Red
Lake, Minnesota the son of
William and Margaret Ann (Dow) Jones Jr.
He attended elementary school in Ponemah and
High School in Red Lake
and Concho, Oklahoma. He received a heavy equipment certificate
from Redby Technical
School. He worked at the halfway house in Redby as a counselor, worked for Red Lake Transportation
and most recently he worked as a blackjack dealer at the Red Lake Casino.
He enjoyed
spending time with his children, family and friends. His hobbies included working on cars and
snowmobiling. He also helped raise Kyle
Martin and Jared Toby Martin of Redby, whom he
considered his own boys.
He is survived by
his mother, Margaret Jones of Redby; Special Friend,
Marion Rushman of Inger;
three brothers, Kevin (Vanessa) Jones of Redby,
Virgil Jones of Redby, and Wesley (Nicole) Jones of
Duluth; three sisters, Valencia Jones of Redby,
Maggie (Alex) Hurd of Bemidji, and Vanessa (Neal)
Jones of Cass Lake; seven children, Tiffany King (Roland Iceman Jr.) of Ponemah, Peter White of Red Lake, Brandon Jones of Redby, Brittany Stately of Redby,
Morning Star Jones of Redby, William Jones IV of Redby, and Shantel Rose Jones of Inger; four grandchildren, Roland Iceman III, Alexia
Iceman, Caleb King, and Sonnie Latrell
Stately; and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and other relatives.
He was preceded in
death by his grandparents, William Jones Sr. and Mary Downwind, Simon Miller
Dow and Daisy King; his father, William Jones Jr.; and numerous aunts, uncles,
and other relatives.
