When I come to the end of the day

And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little, but not too long
And not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love that we once shared-
Miss me, but let me go.

For this is a journey we all must take
And each must go alone.
It’s all a part of the Maker’s plan,
A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart
Go to the friends we know
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds-

Miss me, but let me go.

    Joe Emerson Jones, 83, of Mexico, died Saturday, February 5, 2005, at his home.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Pickering Funeral Home in Mexico with Darrell Jenks and Rev. Chris Atkinson officiating. Visitation will be tonight from 5 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Jones was born on July 14, 1921, in the Liberty Community in Callaway County, a son of Emery Houston and Hallie Moore (Dolman) Jones. On Oct. 24, 1942, in Fulton he married Nellie Frances Gray who survives at the home.

Joe was an avid hunter and fisherman and was always willing to help others. He loved visiting with neighbors and family and enjoyed teaching his kids, grandkids, great-grandkids and anyone who showed interest in fishing how to fish.

Mr. Jones was a veteran of World War II serving in the US Army. He retired in 1983 from A.P Green Refractories where he had worked for 45 years. He was a member of the Dixie Christian Church in New Bloomfield.

In addition to his wife he is survived by two sons, James “Fred” Jones and his wife Janet, Mexico, and Kenneth Wayne Jones and his wife Jane, Centennial, Colo.; four daughters, Janet Irene Flick and husband Gary, Columbia, Wanda Sue Stull and husband David, Jefferson City, Teresa Jo Ann Brightwell and husband Mike, Thompson, and Wilma Lea Jenks and her husband Darrell, Montgomery, Ill.; four brothers Dorris Houston Jones, New Bloomfield, James Doyle Jones, Mexico, Harold Dean Jones, New Bloomfield, and Everett Nolan Jones, Fulton; two sisters, Georgia Marie Hampton, and Ethel Mae Miller, both  of New Bloomfield; 15 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, 1 step granddaughter and 9 step great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters Gladys Berniece Miller and Viola Beatrice Miller, and a brother Raymond William Jones.

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