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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (03/10/2021)

THE PARIS NEWS, Sun., Feb. 15, 1998, p. 4B: ‘Nellie Mae Coston Jones, 89, of Paris died Friday at her home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Bright-Holland Funeral Home with Dr. Stevens officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery under direction of Bright-Holland Funeral Home. Mrs. Jones was born Aug. 13, 1908, in Broadway, the daughter of Henry and Willie Cannady Coston. She was reared in Broadway and attended school there and in Soper, OK. She played basketball and attended Paris Junior College and received her BA from East Texas State University in Commerce. She taught school 32 years at Delmar and retired in 1971. She married James L. (Buster) Jones Sep. 28, 1935, and lived in Broadway, where they were active with the Young People of Broadway. They helped sponsor 4-H Club and Scouting. They took in J. D. Trapp as a young man and helped raise him during the war. In 1950, they adopted a little girl, Bertha Mae Townsley. Mrs. Jones, her husband and son-in-law, Jim Grimes, operated 82 Truck Stop and The Loop Restaurant several years. She was a member of the First Christian Church, Phi Theta Kappa fraternity at PJC, life member of the PJC National Teachers Association, Paris and Lamar County Retired Teachers, charter member of the Lamar County English Club - where she was president in 1970 - and secretary-treasurer of the McDonald Cemetery Association, member of American Literature Study Club, member of Paris Council Study Club, member of the Loyal Builders Sunday School Class at First Christian Church and a member of Christian Women’s Fellowship. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Bertha and Jim Grimes of Paris; a grandson, Scott Grimes and Jennifer Grimes of Paris; a great-grandson, Ethan Scott Grimes; four foster grandchildren, James Trapp, Michael J. Trapp, Leeann Trapp and Rosemary Trapp; a sister, Alice Cooper of Yucipa, CA; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband; a granddaughter, Susan Ann Grimes and her foster son, J.D. Trapp. Pallbearers will be Billy Joe Jones, Jimmy Preston, Orval Hightower, James T. Preston, Larry King and Scott King.