Jean Bentley Jones
April 9, 1921 –
February 4, 2021
Jean Bentley Jones, 99, passed away peacefully on the night of Thursday, February 4, 2021 in Hampton Woods, Poland, Ohio. She would have turned 100 in April of this year.
Jean was born on April 9, 1921, in Pulaski, New York.
She graduated from Rochester School of Business in New York.
She met her beloved husband, Roy, in Utica, New York, and they were married on August 9, 1941, at St. James’s Episcopal Church in Pulaski, New York.
Jean and Roy lived in Utica, New York, Neptune Beach, Florida, Brookfield, Pennsylvania, and finally lived in Poland, Ohio, for 64 years. They were married for 79 years until Roy passed away in September 2000.
Jean enjoyed playing golf at the Fonderlac Country Club, his bridge club, traveling and shopping.
She volunteered with the Camp Fire Girls, Easter Seals and helped with the World War II war effort by packing supplies for armed forces personnel. She worked at H&R Block during the tax season.
She and Roy enjoyed life and managed it all while raising four daughters.
Jean cherished her family. In addition to his four daughters, Jean had eight grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. She loved going to picnics, parties and sporting events and was a strong base for her family and relatives. She was especially proud and very happy to celebrate graduations, weddings, births and baptisms, watching her family grow and prosper.
In Jean’s 100 years of life, she witnessed the Great Depression, five major wars around the world, the arrival of television and the first automobiles. She watched a man’s first landing on the moon.
In addition to her husband, Roy, Jean was preceded in death by her three sisters, Winifred B. (Tom) Evan (2003), Janet B. (Albert) Johnson (2006) and Dorothy B. (Karl) Krespan (2011) niece, Jean Johnson Nash Mathison, passed away in 2010. Her beautiful granddaughter, Catherine M. Veltri, passed away in 1979.
Jean leaves her daughters Diane (Ernie) Naples from Columbus, Ohio, Suzanne (Dr. Robert) Veltri from Lancaster, South Carolina, Deborah (Kenneth) Harcar from New Castle and Winnifred (Rodney) Weaver from Salem, Oregon.
A private service and burial will take place in April at Castle View Memorial Gardens in New Castle.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Jean’s chosen charity, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (www.stjude.org) or St. Jude Research Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis , TN 38105, or by calling (800) 805-5856.
published in March 8, 2021