CHESTER EDWIN DARRELL JONES, 82
Services for Chester Edwin Darrell Jones, 82, Red Oak, were Friday, May 17, at Nelson-Boylan Funeral Chapel in Red Oak, and burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Iowa. Mr. Jones died Tuesday, May 14, 1996, at the Nebraska Methodist Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska following an extended illness.
He was born June 5, 1913, in Coburg to John M. and Alta Van Kirk Jones Sr., attended Coburg School and served in the U. S. Navy during WW II. He married Bernice Aronson in Reno, Nevada on July 15, 1951, and she died in February, 1993. The couple lived 40 years in California and he was employed by Loomis Armored Car Company in San Francisco until retiring in 1970, when they moved to Red Oak. He enjoyed playing guitar, played in several bands, was an avid fisherman and long-time member of the Eagles Lodge.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Bernice, in February 1993; four brothers and one sister.
Survivors include one daughter, Kim Jones of Red Oak; one stepson Rick Patton of Bullhead City, Arizona; three brothers, Delmont of Buffalo, Missouri, and Wally and Junior, both of Red Oak; two sisters, Bonnie Abbott of Stanton and Naomi Spittler of Tunas, Missouri.

Chester Edwin Darrell Jones (630422) was born in June 5, 1913 in Coburg, Iowa and enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in December 1941. He was discharged in October 1946 because of disability.
In 1937 Chester was employed by the government and was told to enlist in the Coast Guard to keep him on the west coast.
The Coast Guard was under the command of the Navy during WWII.
Chester was an instructor of poison gas warfare to all services at Ft. Mason, San Francisco, California.
He was a specialist in charge of the supply of gassed for the U.S. War Department.
He served in the U.S. and the Pacific Theatres of Operation.
Chester was injured in a ship explosion in 2943.
His rate was Seaman 1/C.
Civilian occupation: He was attached to the foreign quarantine service and the U.S. Public Health Service.

SGT DELMONT JONES WOUNDED VET HOME
Sgt. Delmont Jones hospitalized since wounded in action November 5, at Leyet, in overseas hospital and in the States, was brought to the home of his mother, Mrs. Alta Jones who resided in the Detwiller Apartments, 301 West Third Street, early Sunday morning from a government hospital in Topeka, Kansas in the Sellergren Ambulance, Delaine Sellergren and the serviceman's brother, Kenneth Jones made the trip to get him. He stood the trip "fairly" well. He is in a brace from his hip to his toes. He was shot thru the hip, had a broken leg, hit by shrapnel and suffered from jungle fever. He was homesick and had been given a 21 day furlough. Sunday 75 relatives and friends called to see him among them being his sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Abbott and children of Glenwood. He was the first group to go into Leyte and was among the first wounded to return to the United States. He will get to spend a portion of his time at home and then return to the hospital for further treatment.
Mrs. Alta Jones received a message Friday from the War Department saying that her son, Pvt, Jack Jones, had again been wounded and was in a hospital. He was with Patton's Third Army in Germany. He was wounded in the hand. Last August Pvt Jones received leg wounds in action and was hospitalized from August until after Christmas.
Mrs. Alta Jones, son John Jones, has won his wings and is ready for overseas action. He will get his furlough April 5 and will be home from Tindall Field, Florida, for a visit with his mother and wounded brother, Sgt. Delmont Jones.
Her fourth son in the service is Chester Jones, seaman first class with the Coast Guards along the Pacific.
Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, Monday, April 2, 1945, page 1