Wakita Cemetery Grant County Oklahoma

The funeral for Billy Zane Jones, 73, of Wakita, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at First Christian Church, Wakita. The Revs. Bobby Smith and Jeff Enabnit will officiate. Burial will be in Wakita Cemetery. Arrangements are by Hills-Ely Funeral Home, Medford.

He was born Aug. 27, 1934, at his home near Chimes, Ark., to Harley Clarence and Oma Nola Holsted Jones and died Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, at Community Health Center, Wakita.

He moved with his family to Carnegie at age 7 and graduated from Carnegie High School in 1953. He attended co-op school in Kansas City, Kan. He moved to Wakita in June 1958 to be station manager at Farmers Co-op.

He married Sue Ellen Ayers in March 1962. In January 1963, he started and managed Adams Fertilizer Co. They later purchased the company and sold it in 1977. He then became manager of W.B. Johnson Grain Co., where he remained until he retired in May 2006. He had farmed in the Wakita area more than 40 years.

He was a member of Wakita Lions Club; Medford Masonic 108, where he was a 32nd degree Mason; and the Eastern Star. He served on Grant County Excise Board 11 years and was a member of Christian Church of Wakita, serving as deacon.

Surviving are his wife, Sue, of the home; and five sisters, Juanee Pittman of Carnegie, Laquita Littlebird of Weather-ford, Evaughn Sanders of Burleson, Texas, Gay Jones of Carnegie, and Betty Butler of Golden, Colo.

He was preceded in death by one brother and a sister.

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