Martha Jean Stith Jones

Life­long Sun­bury Resident

Martha Jean Stith Jones

On 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.

She is sur­vived by her hus­band of 55 years, John C. Jones, whom she mar­ried on Octo­ber 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 step-daughters Abi­gail and Ava; grand­daugh­ters Noelle and Claire Jones; brother Fred Stith (Kath­leen), sisters-in-law Janet Jones Esmail and Norma Jones Star­buck, and by 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.

Marty was bap­tized into mem­ber­ship of the Sun­bury First Bap­tist Church on April 23, 1944, became a Sun­day School teacher at 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 licensed 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.

The fam­ily received friends on Sat­ur­day, July 28, at Sun­bury First Bap­tist Church, 12259 North Old 3C High­way, Sun­bury, fol­lowed by a cel­e­bra­tion of Marty’s life.

Inurn­ment fol­lowed 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, assisted the fam­ily with arrangements.

Con­do­lences may be expressed to the fam­ily at < www.snyderfuneralhomes.com >.

Posted by Gary Henery on Aug 1 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.