Martha Jean Stith Jones

On Mon­day (July 23, 2012), Martha Jean Stith Jones passed from her Earthly life to eter­nal life as promised by her sav­ior Jesus Christ in John 11:25–26.

She was born at home in Sun­bury on March 18, 1938, to Larue and Margery Stith, and lived in the Sun­bury area her entire life.

Marty was bap­tized into mem­ber­ship of the Sun­bury First Bap­tist Church on April 23, 1944. She became a Sun­day school teacher at age 16 and served in many offices over the years, includ­ing Sun­day school super­in­ten­dent, children’s choir direc­tor and youth leader. She made 13 work­ing and teach­ing mis­sion trips to Haiti, and numer­ous work­ing mis­sion trips to Bacone Col­lege in Okla­homa, which serves the Native Amer­i­can community.

Marty was edu­cated in the Sun­bury and Big Wal­nut schools, grad­u­at­ing in 1956. In 1980, she returned to school and became a LPN, and worked for sev­eral years in local nurs­ing homes. Marty’s joys were fish­ing and watch­ing wildlife. She spent many sum­mers at her cot­tage near White­fish Falls, Ontario, which was her sec­ond home. While there, she was an active con­gre­gant at Cal­vary Bap­tist Church in Espanola.

She is sur­vived by her hus­band of 55 years, John C. Jones, whom she mar­ried on Oct. 5, 1956. Also sur­viv­ing are her daugh­ter, Kelly Kahrmann (Kyle) and her son, Brian D. Jones (Wendy); grand­sons, Kory (Ariel) Kahrmann and Jonathan Kahrmann, and Kory’s step­daugh­ters Abi­gail and Ava; grand­daugh­ters, Noelle and Claire Jones; brother, Fred Stith (Kath­leen), sisters-in-law, Janet Jones Esmail and Norma Jones Star­buck; and sev­eral cousins and many nieces and nephews. She is also sur­vived by her best friend Nugget, her golden retriever.

She was pre­ceded in death by her parents.

The fam­ily will receive friends from 9 to 11 am, Sat­ur­day, July 28, at Sun­bury First Bap­tist Church, 12259 North Old 3C High­way, Sun­bury, fol­lowed by a cel­e­bra­tion of Marty’s life at 11 a.m. Inurn­ment will fol­low in Sun­bury Memo­r­ial Park.

In lieu of flow­ers, con­tri­bu­tions in Marty’s mem­ory may be made to Sun­bury First Bap­tist Church, Delaware County Humane Soci­ety, Canine Com­pan­ions for Inde­pen­dence, or Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share.

DeVore-Snyder Funeral Home, Sun­bury, is assist­ing the fam­ily with arrange­ments. Con­do­lences may be expressed to the fam­ily at snyderfuneralhomes.com.

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