She was born Aug. 12, 1908, near Iberia, a daughter of Wade A. and Edna Francis Wall Pemberton. She was married April 9, 1964, in Dayton, Tenn., to Dr. Andrew B. Jones, who died June 19, 1981.
She was a 1927 graduate of the Iberia Academy, a 1929 graduate of Iberia Junior College and a 1931 graduate of Drury College, Springfield. She was a medical technician at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, and worked as a secretary and lab technician for a group of doctors.
After her retirement she lived on Chickamauga Lake in Tennessee, and Lake Okeechobee in Florida. In 1976, she helped establish the Andrew B. Jones and Gretchen P. Jones Professorship in Neurology at Washington University Medical School, St. Louis.
She was a member of the Iberia Congregational Christian Church.
Survivors include: one stepson, Andrew B. Jones Jr., Adams, Tenn.; two stepdaughters, Pat Ingles, Marathon, Fla., and Barbara Pemberton, Cape Girardeau; three sisters, Wilma Birge, Seymour, Ind., Janet Wilson, Florissant, and Jean Keeth, Iberia; and two brothers, Don Pemberton, Cape Girardeau and Victor Pemberton, Tuscumbia.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Rekus Funeral Home, Iberia. The Rev. RoseEllen Hoff will officiate. Private family burial will be in the Williams-Pemberton family cemetery, near Iberia.
She was born Aug. 12, 1908, near Iberia, a daughter of Wade A. and Edna Francis Wall Pemberton. She was married April 9, 1964, in Dayton, Tenn., to Dr. Andrew B. Jones, who died June 19, 1981.
She was a 1927 graduate of the Iberia Academy, a 1929 graduate of Iberia Junior College and a 1931 graduate of Drury College, Springfield. She was a medical technician at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, and worked as a secretary and lab technician for a group of doctors.
After her retirement she lived on Chickamauga Lake in Tennessee, and Lake Okeechobee in Florida. In 1976, she helped establish the Andrew B. Jones and Gretchen P. Jones Professorship in Neurology at Washington University Medical School, St. Louis.
She was a member of the Iberia Congregational Christian Church.
Survivors include: one stepson, Andrew B. Jones Jr., Adams, Tenn.; two stepdaughters, Pat Ingles, Marathon, Fla., and Barbara Pemberton, Cape Girardeau; three sisters, Wilma Birge, Seymour, Ind., Janet Wilson, Florissant, and Jean Keeth, Iberia; and two brothers, Don Pemberton, Cape Girardeau and Victor Pemberton, Tuscumbia.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Rekus Funeral Home, Iberia. The Rev. RoseEllen Hoff will officiate. Private family burial will be in the Williams-Pemberton family cemetery, near Iberia.
Family Members
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Wilma Pemberton Birge
1905–2006
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Emil Kenneth Pemberton
1906–1984
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Sylvia Pemberton Atwill
1910–1974
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Pauline P. Pemberton Livingston
1912–1996
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Lynn Wade Pemberton
1915–1995
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Victor Pemberton
1917–2001
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Donald David Pemberton
1919–2013
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Infant Son Pemberton
1921–1921
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Edna Maxine Pemberton Deardeuff
1923–1987
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Harold Doyce Pemberton
1925–1995
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Jean Carol Pemberton Keeth
1933–2010
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