Death Takes Ex-Resident

OLYMPIA - Ivan E. Jones, 62, Olympia, a former Centralian, died Thursday at an Olympia hospital.

Mr. Jones, born Feb. 25, 1907, attended Centralia High School and Centralia Business College. He operated a dry cleaning business in Centralia for many years and served in the Air Corps during World War II.

After the war he operated a motel at Eugene, Ore., and next moved to Tillamook, Ore., before moving to Olympia three years ago.

Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Dietz, Olympia.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Mills and Mills Funeral Chapel, Olympia. Burial will follow at Forest Memorial Gardens, Olympia.


Source: The Daily Chronicle (Centralia, WA), Saturday, 31 Jan 1970, p. 2.

Transcribed by Jenny Tenlen, who has no further information on this individual.