Obituary Record

Albin Budd Jones
Died on 9/16/1941

25 Sept., 1941 - The Enterprise - Albin Budd Jones

A. B. JONES IS BURIED ON COAST

Albin Budd Jones, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Jones, was born at Fontanelle, Nebraska October 9th, 1873.

He came to Blair with his parents in 1877, and was educated in the Blair schools and the University of Nebraska. In 1895 he went to Butte, Montana to play on a semi-pro football team. After the game he remained in Butte where he took up the copper smelting business.

He was married at Butte April 28, 1900 to Josephine Hartnell. Soon after his marriage he moved to Utah where he was employed in the smelters at Salt Lake City, Bingham Canyon and tooele for 13 years, except one year when he was employed by an English company to open a new smelter in Argentina, South America. He returned by way of London, England to Tooele, Utah.

In 1913 he became general foreman of the copper smelter of Clifton, Arizona where he remained until the smelter was closed during the depression. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1932. In 1937 he was suddenly stricken with a bad heart condition from which he died suddenly September 16, 1941 at his home in Culver City, California.

The funeral was held at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California Saturday, September 20, 1941.

The surviving members of his family are his wife and two sons, Howard and Kenneth; two sisters, Mrs. C. R. Mead of Blair and Mrs. E. E. Stansfield of Omaha, Nebraska.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Find a Grave Memorial #85436582

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 9/25/1941


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